Does Leaving The Church Mean That People Will “Lose Their Faith”?

The research throws up some surprising results

Paul Walker
Backyard Church
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7 min readSep 24, 2023

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It’s easy to find doom-laden statistics about people leaving church.

Hardly a week goes by without new research showing statistics about how the number of people attending churches in the West is falling away, inevitably followed by gloomy predictions…

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Paul Walker
Backyard Church

Spiritual traveler, Prog Rock aficionado, Husband, Dad, Retired Anglican Priest figuring out what ‘retirement’ means.