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Three Things Your Church Can’t Afford to Lose (And Six Keys for Keeping Them) by Greg Stier Dare 2 Share Ministries There are many churches that, year after year, are losing some of their most precious resources. As a result their numbers are shrinking, their congregations are graying and their passion is dying. What are these churches losing? The next generation! I’m convinced that if senior pastors don’t take immediate—even drastic—action, the body of Christ is going to lose more than just a handful of teenagers attending their youth groups. They will lose the battle with Satan for the soul of America. After all, ultimately America is not going to be transformed from the outside in (pickets, protests and political action) but from the inside out (revival, repentance and reaching out)! Who better to lead this revival than a generation of young people? The problem comes when we begin to open our eyes to the grim reality that teenagers are evacuating the church. Instead of revival we are seeing what I have come to call, The Great Graduation Evacuation. If the statistics continue to spiral downward when it comes to the retention of the next generation, then we could look like post-Christian Europe in short order.
