- Unchurched
"Unchurched" or "The Unchurched" or "unchurched people" is defined by the
Barna Group as "an adult (18 or older) who has not attended a Christian church service within the past six months" excluding special services such asEaster ,Christmas ,wedding s orfuneral s. [ [http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=Topic&TopicID=38 Barna.org research archive about the unchurched] ] Barna reports there are 75 million "unchurched people" in theUnited States as of 2004 . Depending on context, the term may bepejorative .Many books and articles have been written by Western church leaders to address the decline of
Christendom in apost-modern world and how the assumption that new attendees have knowledge of basic Christian teachings is no longer reliable.References
ee also
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Unchurched Belt
*Emerging church movement
*Christianese
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