Quick takeaways

• Approximately 40 million adult Americans have left houses of worship in the last 25 to 30 years, marking the largest and fastest religious shift in the country's history.

• There are different approaches to reconnecting with those who have left the church, such as a simple nudge or personal invitation for casual churchgoers, building relationships and addressing individual and institutional issues for cultural Christians and BIPOC individuals, or exploring other religious traditions for those who may not return to an evangelical church.

• The group of ex-fangelicals, who make up around two and a half million people, have 0% willingness to return to an evangelical church, but 79% are still open to attending a Christian church outside of the evangelical tradition, with a high level of orthodoxy remaining within this group.

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