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I think we are living in a post-Christian culture. I think that's just been the reality actually for a while now that actually we live in a culture where we still sort of

have some familiarity with the Christian story but increasingly younger generations are growing up

unchurched without any real purchase on that story.

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So I recently saw a 2018 Pine Tops Foundation study that said over 1 million young people

will leave the faith per year for the next 30 years.

That is staggering and depressing.

Yeah, I mean, Pew research maintained that for every person who becomes a Christian,

four more leave the faith. That's sort of the world.

Isn't that depressing to you? Yeah and the question is is that really true and

what what is happening and why and we have the guy who's going to give us the answer.

It's not you and it's not me.

We've got Justin Briarley with us from the UK in Orlando, just took a what a four hour bus ride from Miami

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