Countdown Day 68
Through the 1980’s and 1990’s, conservative Evangelicals could contrast their growth statistics with the decline of their “liberal” Christian counterparts. They frequently suggested that their theological and socioeconomic conservatism was the secret to their statistical success. But in the first decade of the new millennium, Evangelicals also discovered that their trend lines were turning south; they too were losing their younger generations. (10)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)