| The generation
known as ‘millennials’ are now emerging into adulthood. They face
opportunities and challenges no generation has previously faced. For the
church they are the ‘missing generation’.
Ruth Perrin’s landmark study of emerging adults who
as teenagers described themselves as Christians, reveals what has happened to
this apparently “lost generation” – those who have lost faith altogether,
those with a faith but who have withdrawn from the church and those with an
ongoing active faith which is nonetheless now broader and deeper than
previously.
Considering the factors which help shape millennial belief,
Changing Shape reflects on the challenges and
opportunities that ‘missing generation’ bring to the Church, and considers
what lessons the Church can learn from the Millennial mindset. |