The great dechurching : who's leaving, why are they going, and what will it take to bring them back? / Jim Davis and Michael Graham ; with Ryan P. Burge ; foreword by Collin Hansen.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: Meet the dechurched. What is at stake? -- Who are the dechurched? -- Part 2: Profiles of the dechurched. Cultural Christians -- Dechurched mainstream Evangelicals -- Exvangelicals -- Dechurched BIPOC -- Dechurched mainline Protestants and Catholics -- Part 3: Engaging with the dechurched. Reasons to hope -- Relational wisdom -- The missed generational handoff -- Messages for the dechurched -- Part 4: Lessons for the church. Spiritual formation and the dechurched -- Confessional and missional -- Embracing exile -- Five exhortations to church leaders --

"We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater than the First and Second Great Awakening and every revival in our country combined but in the opposite direction. Yet precious little rigorous study has been done on the broad phenomenon of dechurching in America. Jim Davis and Michael Graham have commissioned the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching in America by renowned sociologists Dr. Ryan Burge and Dr. Paul Djupe. The Great Dechurching takes the insights gleaned from this study to drill down on how exactly people are dechurching with respect to beliefs, behavior, and belonging. The Great Dechurching gives the church in America its first ever deep dive into the dechurched phenomenon. Readers will learn about the dechurched through a detailed sketch of demographics, size, core concerns, church off-ramps, historical roots, and the gravity of what is at stake. Then they will explore what can be done to slow the bleed, engage the pertinent issues winsomely and wisely, and hopefully re-church some of the dechurched"--