Church

Younger Christians experience greater growth

Sifting through the data, the National Church Life Survey (NCLS), a cross-denominational research organisation, has reported that Generation Y, born 1977 to 1991, showed an improvement in all the core qualities relating to the church’s health and vitality from the period of 2001 to 2006.

“The overall involvement in church life speaks of younger attendants’ being, with Generations Y and X the most likely to have increased their frequency of church attendance in the last year, highly involve in leadership and ministry roles, and being the highest proportion of attendants at faith-based small groups,” quoted the NCLS e-newsletter.

“This combined with a strong ownership of the church’s vision and confidence that it can be achieved, illustrated a picture of motivated younger attendants ready and willing to be involved in a new and innovative future of their church.”

The NCLS also believe that the strong commitment is displayed by older attendants, in the form of their contribution over years of faithful service and continual loyalty to their denominations. Devotion to faith practices, maintaining a consistent and unchanging traditional style speaks highly of preserving a heritage, with a desire to build a vision for the future.

This transition period, the NCLS stated at the end, would be very interesting and unique given the dramatic differences between current generations.

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