Brian Siewert's Presentation

In one study, 90% of youth active in high school church programs drop out of church by their second year of college.
The Southern Baptist Convention reports they are currently losing 70-88% of the young people after their freshman year in college...and may never come back.
If current trends in the belief systems and practices of the younger generation continue, in ten years, church attendance will be half the size it is today.
61% of today’s young adults – who had been churched at one point during their teen years are now spiritually disengaged
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ChurchHome
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Great Awakening Afterglow
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Greatest Generation 1916 – 1924
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Silent Generation 1925 – 1945
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Baby Boomers 1946 – 1960
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Generation X 1961 – 1981
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Generation Y 1980 – 2000
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Generation Z 2001 to present
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1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.
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Search Institutes 40 Assets
Consequences of Having 31+ Assets
Alcohol Use 45% 3%
Violence 62% 6%
Success in School (mostly A’s) 3% 51%
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3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you. 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children…
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Significant Religious Influences Survey
Grade 10 students who chose
as one of their top 5
Mother 72%
Father 49%
Pastor 45%
Grandparent 34%
Youth Group 33%
Sunday School 25%
Church Camp 25%
The Bible 23%
Retreats 20%
Youth Group Leader 17%
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My Survey of Post High School Students
www.siimlife.com
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7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
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Today’s Reality
Percentage of churched youth who :
view their mom as very religious.? 48%
view their dad as very religious? 23%
have experienced either family devotions, 27%
prayer or Bible reading in the home?
have experienced a family service project? 29%
have talked with mom about faith? 28%
have talked with dad about faith? 13%
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10 When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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20 In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?" 21 tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
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RETROFIT, NOT REBUILD
2O, NOT 180O
REMEMBER, NOT RE-DO
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