The Number One Predictor of Whether a Teenager Will Attend Church as an Adult

Cameron Cole November 16, 2017

The experts at Fuller Youth Institute’s College Transition Project identified that the most influential factor in determining whether or not a child will attend church as an adult is how accurately he or she understands the Gospel.

In 133 hours of one-on-one interviews, 267 Christian teenagers were asked to describe their religious beliefs; the word “grace” was used three times.

The word “Gospel,” …..not once.

It’s not surprising that American churches have only a thirty percent success rate in forming kids with lasting faith in Christ (and a seventy-percent rate of failure). That’s a statistic Rooted wants to flip.

Help Rooted Flip the Statistic. We need small, monthly givers.

Give to the Rooted “Flip the Statistic” Campaign today.

Flip the Statistic

Cameron Cole

Cameron Cole has been the Director of Youth Ministries at the Cathedral Church of the Advent since December of 2005, and in January of 2016 his duties expanded to include Children, Youth, and Families. He is the founding chairman of Rooted Ministry, an organization that promotes gospel-centered youth ministry. He is the co-editor of Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry: A Practice Guide (Crossway, 2016). Cameron is the author of Therefore, I Have Hope: 12 Truths that Comfort, Sustain, and Redeem in Tragedy (Crossway, 2018), which won World Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year (Accessible Theology) and was runner up for The Gospel Coalition’s Book of the Year (First-Time Author). Cameron has a B.A. in Latin and English and an M.A. in Education, all from Wake Forest; he recently completed his Masters in Divinity from Reformed Theological Seminary.

Additional Articles Ministry to Young Women Is Not A “Check Your Brains at the Door” Endeavor Preparing Christian Children for the Transgender Moment View All