Church Attendance in the US, by Generation

[cenimo]

The GI or Builder's Generation (60+) is 9.7% of the US population,
60% of them are members of a church.

Baby Boomers (40s and 50s) are 29% of the population,
around 40% are affiliated with a church.

Survivors or Generation X (20s and 30s) comprise 27.5% of the
population, but less than 18% are affiliated with a church.

Milennials (born 1982 & after) are 21.4% of the population, but
less than 10% are affiliated with a church.

The GI generation is dying at the rate of 1000 a day. The good
news is that they see baby boomer children as more affluent than they were
so are inclined to leave their money to charitable institutions. The bad news
is the prospect of cathedral-like church buildings to which no one comes.

Church membership has stayed around 42% - 44% of the population for the last twenty years. But if the above trends continue, some of the younger folk among
us may se the almost complete demise of the Christian Church in their lifetime.

Michaelmas A.D. 2004
The Anglican Digest
p9

from
St. Andrew's Herald
St Anderw's
Poughkeepsie, New York

[el Gusano]

Apostasy happens.

[Diane 1611]

In the old days, you were in the minority if you didn't go to church. Today, you're in the minority if you do go to church. It's really sad. :(: On the other hand, there are so many more folks that we can witness to! :): The Rapture will wake a lot of folks up, that's for sure.

[vibesmobile]

El Gusao,

your post sounds like a bumper sticker.

"Apostacy Happens"

better than the heather alternative you find around town.

Rob

[Jiggy37]

What's the source of this article? I noticed something when reading it.
The GI or Builder's Generation (60+) is 9.7% of the US population,
60% of them are members of a church.

Baby Boomers (40s and 50s) are 29% of the population,
around 40% are affiliated with a church.

Survivors or Generation X (20s and 30s) comprise 27.5% of the
population, but less than 18% are affiliated with a church.

Milennials (born 1982 & after) are 21.4% of the population, but
less than 10% are affiliated with a church.
Unless I'm mistaken, being a member of a church or being affiliated with a church has little to do with whether a person is a regular attendee of church services.

[cenimo]

Regular attendance (and this surprised me) is considered 12 times a year or more.

Tis was the source for the articles I saw
(end of the OP)

from
St. Andrew's Herald
St Anderw's
Poughkeepsie, New York

but I think their source is a church demographics study group called Percept

[Jiggy37]

Regular attendance (and this surprised me) is considered 12 times a year or more.
In that case, you might know my next question: Has that always been how it's counted?

There are at least two things these statistics could mean.

1) If it has always been counted as once a month or more and yet church attendance has been drastically dropping, we're in serious trouble.
2) If it used to be that regular church attendance was counted as two or three times a month or more, and our church attendance, even when counted as once a month or more, has still been drastically dropping, we're in even more serious trouble.

There are a lot of other factors to consider, of course. Church attendance doesn't make a Christian saved, and certainly an atheist (or at least a non-believer) can attend church for one reason or another without becoming saved by it--as Diane 1611 pointed out, it used to be that it was considered the norm to go to church, but I wonder (in an honest way; I'm not saying "I question," but only "I wonder") how many of those only went because it was the norm and they wanted to fit in, as opposed to those who truly wanted to go.
And, of course, you never know how many are scared away by the lukewarm church. That's not a defense of not assembling together with other believers (although whether they assemble with other believers elsewhere is another question), but just saying that a lower church membership may be more an indicator of how lukewarm Chrstian churches have become than the spiritual state of the nation.

Or, of course, all of that could just be wishful thinking on my part--"wishful thinking" because I do "wish" that everyone was saved. I don't think a day passes when I don't pray that everyone I know will either desire to grow (and will grow!) in their relationship with the Lord if they have one, or desire to gain a relationship with the Lord if they don't.