Young Adults Largely Pull Away from Spiritual Activity
By Audrey Barrick
Christian Post Reporter
Tue, Sep. 12 2006

While teens actively participate in church activities, a new study revealed that most “twentysomethings” disengage from active spiritual lives.

The Barna Group reported that 61 percent of today's young adults had been churched at one point during their teen years but they are now spiritually disengaged – not actively attending church, reading the Bible, or praying.

As teens, most people have been found to embrace spirituality with half of teens attending a church-related service or activity in a typical week and more than 75 percent discussing matters of faith with peers. Three out of five teens attend at least one youth group meeting at a church during a typical three-month period, according to the research group, and one-third of teenagers say they participate in a Christian club on campus at some point during a typical school year.

With many Christian leaders calling today's teens the largest generation, these statistics represent "significant prospects for influencing the nation's 24 million teens," stated the report. the rest