"Most young adults today don't pray, don't worship and don't read the Bible, a major survey by a Christian research firm shows.
"If the trends continue, "the Millennial generation will see churches closing as quickly as GM dealerships," says Thom Rainer, president of LifeWay Christian Resources. In the group's survey of 1,200 18- to 29-year-olds, 72% say they're "really more spiritual than religious."
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In addition, read here a USA Today story reporting on Mark Driscoll's response to Millenials' honesty about their faith. An exerpt:
"...young people are more spiritually honest. The days of feeling some sort of cultural pressure to adhere to historic Christian truths is simply gone. Subsequently, we may not be seeing younger people less devoted to Jesus Christ but simply more people being honest so that those who in the past would have professed faith they did not possess or practice are simply being honest which is more admirable than being a hypocrite."
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