American Student Facts
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There are approximately 49 million young people ages 12 to 18 in the USA. There are also approximately 20 million who are ages 19 to 21.
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Only 4 percent of these young people are evangelical Christians who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.
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Only 23% of people in their 20’s attend church in the USA.
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7 out of 10 young people raised in a local church will no longer attend church by the time they are 20 years old.
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Witchcraft/Wicca is the fastest growing religion on USA school and college campuses.
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At current rates of growth we will see historic evangelical Christianity reduced to around 1% of the USA population within 35 to 40 years.
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Approximately 30,000 people leave our churches every week in America and do not return.
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65% of Christian teenagers say that Jesus sinned while He was on earth and that the Bible is weird and hard to understand and is not relevant to their everyday lives.
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90% of all people who come to Christ and are saved do so before they are 19 years of age.
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At current trends Islam and Mormonism will be the 2 dominant religions in America by 2075.
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There are 26,000 cults in the USA.
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Most Christian student ministries have a social/ recreational approach to ministry and no longer teach historic foundational Christian theology: resulting in a tidal wave of students who do not really know why they believe in, or what they believe about, Jesus Christ.
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Two million USA teenagers will attempt suicide in the next 12 months.
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Average stay for a youth minister in a local church is 14 months. Highest burn out rate in ministry to date.
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There is no discernable difference between Christian and non-Christian teenagers when polled in these areas: media choices, dating, cheating, lying, abortion, teen pregnancy, alcohol, drug use, smoking, gambling and pre-marital sex.
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95% of all Christians in the USA will never lead even one person to Christ in their lifetime.
Information provided by: Barna Report, Gallup Polls, and Time Magazine polls.