Church attendance Quote by Kirk Franklin

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

— Francis Chan

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church…

— Ted Dekker

“People no longer need to go to church to hear the Word, which has been the selling point for local churches for the past…

— Justin Wise

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

— Tom Brokaw

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

— Win Butler

Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change…

— Francis Chan

Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as…

— Rob Bell

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

— Max Lucado

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

— Parker J. Palmer

“Indeed, the only conservative Protestants I knew who attended church regularly were my dad and his family.17 In the middle of the Bible Belt,…

— J.D. Vance

I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.

— Craig Groeschel

“Races, socioeconomic groups, and regions differ in their religious service attendance much more than they did a few decades ago. The religious landscape is…

— Jean M. Twenge