They're almost all leaving, even in America.

Stephen Crittenden from the ABC's the Religion Report said this on a show a couple of weeks a go.

In the last couple of weeks, The New York Times ran a very interesting article, in which it claimed that evangelical leaders in the united States were warning each other that their teenagers are abandoning the Protestant faith in droves. And I'll give you some figures that compared with 35% of their baby boomer parents, and 65% of their grandparents, only four percent of this current American teenage generation will be Bible believers.

This paints a pretty bleak picture and one that I assume is somewhat similar in Australia. So what's the problem? I think it's more than just how we do church. I think it's rooted in what we believe and how we present our faith to others and how they perceive our faith, which is why I tend to carry on so much about that rather than how we do church - although I think the "how" is important too. None the less, is the way I put Xy any more appealing than say an alpha course or something else? I'm guessing it might sit a little better with non-Xn people but will they be more likely to consider the faith or just say "that's nice I'm glad it works for you"? Or, am I just describing Xy in a way that might relate well just to non-Xn people that I know who might only be a small percentage of the overall population? Perhaps am I just making something simple ridiculously complicated? Am I adding to the problem of people becoming increasingly less interested in Xy or am I doing the opposite?