{"id":2791,"date":"2007-08-18T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2007-08-18T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T18:22:14","slug":"why-young-adults-stop-continue-and-restart-attending-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/why-young-adults-stop-continue-and-restart-attending-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Why young adults stop, continue and restart attending church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/churchrelevance\/~3\/145177034\/\">Churchrelevance<\/a> has the latest from a Lifeway survey that shows that 70% of Protestant young adults ages 18-22 stop attending church regularly for at least a year, why 30% continue attending church, and why 75% of those who dropout return to church at ages 23-30.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AMONG THOSE WHO STOP ATTENDING CHURCH<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 27% say they simply wanted a break from church<br \/>\n      >> 20% planned on taking a break from church once they finished high school<\/li>\n<li> 25% say they moved to college and stopped attending church<\/li>\n<li> 23% say work responsibilities prevented them from attending<\/li>\n<li> 22% say they moved too far away from the church to continue attending<\/li>\n<li> 22% became too busy, though still wanted to attend<\/li>\n<li> 17% chose to spend more time with friends outside the church<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churchrelevance has the latest from a Lifeway survey that shows that 70% of Protestant young adults ages 18-22 stop attending church regularly for at least a year, why 30% continue attending church, and why 75% of those who dropout return to church at ages 23-30. AMONG THOSE WHO STOP ATTENDING CHURCH 27% say they simply &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/why-young-adults-stop-continue-and-restart-attending-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why young adults stop, continue and restart attending church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-J1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}