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You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church … and Rethinking Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is the church losing the next generation? Millions of young Christians are disconnecting from church as they transition into adulthood. They’re real people, not just statistics. And each one has a story to tell. • “I knew from church that I couldn’t believe in both science and God, so that was it. I didn’t believe in God anymore.” —Mike • “When I write a song that’s not used in a way that...

Let’s return to the way teens and young adults express their disconnection from the Christian community: you lost me. When someone uses this idiom, they are suggesting that something hasn’t translated, that the message has not been received. Wait, I don’t understand. You lost me. This is what many Mosaics are saying to the church. As we’ll see in this chapter, it’s not that they’re not listening; it’s that they can’t understand what we are saying. The transmission of faith from one generation to
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