“making a decision for Christ” or in the slogan “worship at the church of your choice.” Religious voluntaryism has shaped and been sustained by related American cultural values such as democracy, individualism and the entrepreneurial spirit. Sociologists have noted the growth and development of voluntaryism in the late-twentieth century. For a variety of reasons, the 1960s and 1970s were characterized by a quest for self-fulfillment, accompanied by a declining respect for religious authority and religious