{"id":77423,"date":"2019-01-16T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T22:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77423"},"modified":"2019-01-16T18:35:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:35:10","slug":"factstrends-most-teens-drop-out-of-church-when-they-become-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77423","title":{"rendered":"(Facts+Trends) Most Teens Drop Out Of Church When They Become Young Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a year as a teenager say they also dropped out for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lifewayresearch.com\/2019\/01\/15\/most-teenagers-drop-out-of-church-as-young-adults\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research<\/a>. Thirty-four percent say they continued to attend twice a month or more.<\/p>\n<p>While the 66 percent may be troubling for many church leaders, the numbers may appear more hopeful when compared to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lifewayresearch.com\/2007\/08\/07\/reasons-18-to-22-year-olds-drop-out-of-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2007 study from LifeWay Research<\/a>. Previously, 70 percent of 18- to 22-year-olds left church for at least one year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factsandtrends.net\/2019\/01\/15\/study-most-teens-drop-out-of-church-as-young-adults\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a new study says college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings. Two-thirds (66 percent) of American young adults who attended a Protestant church regularly for at least a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77423\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,108,110,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-teens-youth","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77424,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77423\/revisions\/77424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}