70% of teenagers who are involved in church youth groups stop attending church within two years of their high school graduation.
Report from Southern Baptist Council on Family Life in 2002 reveals that 88% of the children in evangelical homes leave church at 18.
Tom Bisset interviewed Christian kids and asked them when, why, and how they abandoned their faith:
Finding #1. They left because they had troubling, unanswered questions about the faith
Finding #2. They left because their faith was not "working" for them
Finding #3. They left because they allowed other things to take priority
Finding #4. They left because they never personally owned their faith
Precisely as described in Matthew 13:5-7:
"Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings."
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https://biblehub.com/james/2-19.htm
https://livingwaters.com/true-and-false-conversion/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States
https://thefederalist.com/2016/10/10/survey-finds-american-christians-actually-heretics/
https://biblehub.com/romans/3-10.htm
https://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm
https://biblehub.com/john/1-1.htm
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https://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/ages.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_evangelism_movement
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-7-things-to-know#:~:text=Although%20the%20brain%20stops%20growing,the%20last%20parts%20to%20mature.
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https://www.challies.com/articles/why-christian-kids-leave-the-faith/
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/matthew/13-5.htm
