Essential Church?: Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts

This important question about eighteen to twenty-two-year-olds is sharply examined and duly answered in Essential Church? A follow-up in many ways to Thom S. Rainer's #1 national bestseller Simple Church, the book is based on research conducted with his son and coauthor Sam Rainer of one thousand so-called church dropouts.

Why did they leave the building? Reasons given by these young men and women have less to do with "losing their religion" and more about the desire for an authentic spiritual community that isn't made stale by just maintaining the status quo.

Equipped with clear data on church dropouts and compelling case studies of churches that have conquered the issue, the Rainers unpack four incisive solutions that will make your worship community an essential part of these young people's lives again: Simplify: Getting the Structure Right, Deepen: Getting the Content Right, Expect: Getting the Attitude Right, Multiply: Getting the Action Right. Now is the time to get it right, to become an essential church.