Amid evangelical decline, split grows between young adults and church elders
Only 11 percent of evangelicals are younger than 30, according to a recent study.
Congregación León de Judá (Lion of Judah Congregation) in Boston. Photo by Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.
(The Christian Science Monitor) For Andrew Walker, the current state of American culture poses a serious challenge to the faithful.
For a variety of reasons, fewer and fewer Americans now have a grasp of the fundamentals of orthodox biblical teachings, said Walker, director of policy studies for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
“Once Christianity is loosed from its doctrinal contours, you make it much less persuasive,” he said. “You will always have more robust sincerity for your faith where you have churches that are more bound by biblical teachings and the confessions of the church.”
