Negative perceptions. Church dropouts. Prodigals and nomads. It's easy to get discouraged by all that's going wrong when it comes to Christianity and the emerging generation. Yet what's going right? In fact, signs of hope are springing up all around. In Faith For Exiles David Kinnaman, author of unChristian and You Lost Me teams up with Mark Matlock, former executive director of Youth Specialties to unveil major new Barna research that uncovers what's working—five practices that contribute to resilience. Enter the world of resilient young adult Christians and learn how they are sustaining faith. Finally, you can find hope in all that God is doing among young disciples today. ( from https://faithforexiles.com/)
I don't think I have ever recommended a book on this blog before, but here goes. Faith for Exiles is a good book with great information. I'm still trying to figure out how we can do some of the things they recommend in the middle of a pandemic where people are afraid (and sometimes rightly so) about getting sick or getting others sick, but that doesn't change the study. I have just finished this book today and plan to go back through it to see how we might implement some of the ideas in our future ministry. Some of the ideas have had but not been able to put it into words or proper action but I hope to change that.
Anyway, it's worth a read.
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