The Barna Research Group has done significant research into American’s involvement with church and published the results in 2014 in Churchless: Understanding Today’s Unchurched and How to Connect with Them. This quote from the book expresses the heart of a course that I taught for Bethel Seminary on Christianity & culture.
“For the sake of the life-changing message of Jesus, and of the Great Commission to share that message entrusted to us, the Christian community has an obligation to understand the unchurched.” 1
Do you think that the churches that you have been a part of have understood the people in their community who were not a part of the church?