5 reasons your church is losing young people – and what you can do about it

Krish Kandiah has been writing about the tragedy of ‘the missing generation’ for years, but when his own children stopped going to church, the issue took on a new urgency for him. Here he shares what he believes to be the five things that push young people away from God

The demographic studies of the Church make sobering reading. Over the years there have been catastrophic losses of young people from the Church. The overall downward trend has inoculated us a little from the shock, perhaps, but there’s no escaping the devastating impact. Why are so many students and young professionals absent from or leaving the Church? And what can we do to re-engage them?