The Great DeChurching: Who is Leaving and Why with Jim Davis

I recently read a book that I absolutely could not put down. I’ve literally told almost everyone I know to go buy it and read it for themselves. That book is called The Great Dechurching

"The current Great Dechurching ​is ​larger ​than ​the ​First ​Great ​Awakening, ​Second ​Great ​Awakening, ​and ​all ​the ​Billy ​Graham ​Crusades ​combined, ​just ​going ​the ​opposite ​direction.”

Today, I have the honor of talking with one of the co-authors of this book, Jim Davis.

Jim is the teaching pastor at a church in Orlando, Florida where he had a hunch they were experiencing a large and fast religious shift for the worse but had no data to prove it. 

So, with the help of two sociologists, they commissioned the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching (somebody ​who ​used ​to ​go ​to ​church ​at ​least ​monthly ​and ​now ​goes ​less ​than ​one ​time ​a ​year) in America. 

What they learned was fascinating.

In this conversation, Jim and I talk about the different groups of people leaving the Church, why they are leaving and what we, as believers, can do about it.