What Will the US Look Like in the Future

Alot of that depends on what the church will look like. What will the church look like? Barna has done some research and is writing a new book. Here are some reviews of an advance copy:

"Revolution", George Barna's new book, will be published in September. Barna leads a church research institute, and is currently the most-quoted person in the Christian church in the USA because of his statistical work. To summarize the book's most important conclusions:

* The number of Christians attending local church in the USA is declining rapidly. Today, 70% of Christians attend traditional churches, but this will sink to 30-35% in 20 years;
* The number of followers of Jesus who do not attend a local church will grow from 30% to 70% in the next 20 years;
* Alternative fellowship forms (house church/simple church, post-modern churches etc.), currently home for 5% of USA Christians, will grow to make up 30-35%; another 30-35% will live out their faith in the fields of media, arts and culture; the remaining 5% of Christians attending non-traditional forms of church will have a family-based spiritual life;
* Conclusion: a minority group presently not even noticed by many will become the mainstream of North American Christianity in only two decades.

http://sojourner.typepad.com/house_church_blog/2005/09/the_new_revolut.html
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