Report:No.of Churchless Americans Now Soaring; Have Grown by Nearly One-Third in Past 20 years

A new report has found that the number of churchless Americans has increased by nearly one-third in just 20 years despite frequent "Christian" self-description of the United States, the Ecumenical News website reports today (April 29, 2015).

In the early 1990s, about two out of 10 U.S. adults were churchless; in the early 2000s, it was three in 10, and today, the churchless make up nearly half the adult population, the Barna group finds in its report distributed April 28.

"In spite of America's 'Christian' self-description, there is a growing sense among North American Christ-followers that the culture is changing faster than we can keep up with, or respond to," the report says.

The report -- called "Churchless" -- confirms that the world has indeed been altered in significant ways during the last few decades.