This book was a book club selection to help our club members better understand what it takes to attract young families to our congregation. Growing Young is a gift to the Christian community. Just looking at the index was encouraging and helped me read what the authors have carefully researched and experienced.
Let me share a few quotes that caused much discussion in our club:
— “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” It is not enough to develop a strategy to attract young people; it requires a cultural change in the church.
— “When interview participants describe their church, they are eight times more likely to mention that diversity of beliefs in their church than similarities.”
I highly recommend Growing Young to any church that sees a need to change and is looking for ideas about what to do and why.