Is the church disconnected?

Why is it that although most of us know we need help, the idea of going to church – for many – is a turnoff? And yet the question in the minds of millions of people is, “Can you help me? Can you make me better?” David Kinnamon says in his book, You Lost Me, there has been a 43% drop in church attendance among teens and twenties. In fact, he likens the absence of young people, or young people who go missing after attending church in their earlier years, to a “black hole.” Christ’s church is intended to be beautiful and yet, often to the watching world, followers-of- Christ (who make up the church) misrepresent the work of beauty it is meant to be.