Changing Shape

<p>The generation known as ‘millennials’ are now emerging into adulthood. They face opportunities and challenges no generation has previously faced. For the church they are the ‘missing generation’. </p><p>Ruth Perrin’s landmark study of emerging adults who as teenagers described themselves as Christians reveals what has happened to this apparently “lost generation” – those who have lost faith altogether those with a faith but who have withdrawn from the church and those with an ongoing active faith which is nonetheless now broader and deeper than previously. </p><p>Considering the factors which help shape millennial belief <em>Changing Shape </em>reflects on the challenges and opportunities that ‘missing generation’ bring to the Church and considers what lessons the Church can learn from the Millennial mindset.</p>