Not belonging to or participating in a church.
n.(used with a pl. verb) People who do not belong to or participate in a church considered as a group. Used with the.
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Not belonging to or participating in a church.
n.(used with a pl. verb) People who do not belong to or participate in a church considered as a group. Used with the.
"Unchurched" or "The Unchurched" or "unchurched people" according to Barna Group, is defined as, "an adult (18 or older) who has not attended a Christian church service within the past six months" excluding special services such as Easter, Christmas, weddings or funerals.[1] Barna reports there are 75 million "unchurched people" in the United States as of 2004.
Many books and articles have been written by Western church leaders to address the decline of Christendom in a post-modern world and how the assumption that new attendees have knowledge of basic Christian teachings is no longer reliable.
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