CNLP 600 | Jim Davis on The Great Dechurching, The Fastest and Largest Church Attendance Exit in U.S. History, The Future of Small, Medium, and Mega Churches, and The $24 Billion in Giving That Left the Church
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Jim Davis joins Carey to discuss the massive research project he and his team have done to explain the exit of 40 million Americans from the church since the 1990s.
He talks about why this shift is the largest church attendance shift in US history, why the right is de-churching faster than the left, the $24 billion in giving that disappeared from the church, why it's not just cultural Christians who are leaving, and much, much more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network Welcome to the Keri Newhoff Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | It's Keri here and we are at episode 600. |
| 0:13.9 | Nice milestone. |
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| 0:18.4 | We are going to talk about a great D-Churching, some fascinating research sitting down with |
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