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A Catalyst for Change: A Case Study & Reflection on Culture Shift in American EvangelicalismBy Dan Davis
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The ‘Emerging Church Movement’ is largely
a post-modern & post-boomer-generation
Evangelical reform movement, reacting
against 80’s & 90’s over-identification with
Right Wing political agendas.
It will either:
1. If rejected: Aid the erosion of
Evangelical numbers and influence.
2. If embraced: Alter Evangelical
political alliances.
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A Nationwide Poll* Revealed:
In 1999, 65% of Americans believed that religion was
losing its influence in public life…
At the same time, a nearly equal amount, 62% claimed that the influence of religion was increasing in their
personal lives.
*Roof, Wade Clark. 1999. Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
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And the Survey Says:
GSS: In 1985, 4.6% of U.S. Christians claimed no official denominational affiliation.
In 2004, this had arisen to 18.5%.
A Barna Poll (2009) found that between 4% to 33% of the U.S. population will say they have attended a house church in the last 30 days depending on how the question is worded.
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Nationwide:Gallup, 1964: “Have you undergone a religious experience of some variety?”
20% Yes
GSS, 2004: “Do you feel God’s presence on a daily basis?”
60% Yes
Baylor, 2008: “I felt called by God to do something.”
44% Yes
“I heard the voice of God speaking to me.”
20% Yes
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Richard Flory & Don Miller, USC
“Rationalistic apologetics are largely irrelevant to [GenX] religious commitments,
having been replaced by an experience-based epistemology.”
From: GenX Religion (2000)
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Richard Flory & Don Miller, USC
The Key Findings, Shifts in Five Areas:
1. Church Service Style
2. Organizational Structure
3. Locus of Ministry Emphasis
4. Issues of Diversity
5. Primary Source of Authority
From: GenX Religion (2000)
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Summarizing Themes
Future of Evangelicalism?
• As it recedes in religious market-share…
• As it decouples from Right Wing political alliances…
Future of the Emerging Church?
The shifts can be linked to broader nationwide generational shifts. See Putnam’s American Grace (2010).