From the book – RAMP by Dr. Roger Hernandez:
Around 43 to 47 percent of our members decide at one point or another to disconnect from local church engagement.’ Let that number sink in for a
minute. Forty-three out of a hundred. Gone. Drove off, veered off, or bumped off. Let me ask you a question. In what other area of your life is this ratio acceptable?
Would you go to a hospital that had forty-three deaths for every hundred live births?
Would you dine regularly at a restaurant where forty-three out of a hundred meals gave you diarrhea?
Would you buy a car from a company that, for every hundred cars, produced forty-three lemons?
Would you let a mechanic fix your car who disabled forty-three out a hundred cars he touched?
Yet, this is our reality. We must take an honest look at the data and ask hard questions.
This is not an Adventist problem; this is a Christianity problem. Look around America, and the prognosis for the church can seem bleak:
“According to the Churchless data, in the 1990s, 30% of the American population was un-churched. Today, two decades later, that percentage has risen to more than four in 10 Americans (43%).”
