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is called The Research and defines the basic terms used in the studies, has a lengthy discussion on Methodology (persons surveyed, data collected, sample size, and sampling error), and concludes with information about David Kiennaman and the Barna Group (whose research is frequently cited in national publications).Most will turn immediately to the last chapter in the book, Fifty Ideas to Find A Generation which is divided into ideas for (1) everyone; (2) the next generation; (3) parents; (4) pastors, church leaders, and Christian organizations; and (5) supporters of the next generation. Kinnaman acknowledges that every idea will not relate to your particular situation and that the listing is not necessarily an endorsement. These ideas come from many different persons who are attempting to live with new realities.You can check out the book by visiting the website www.YouLostMeBook.org.

      7 Jim Wallis, Call To Conversion (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2005), xiv.

      8 Richard Blackburn, Leadership and Anxiety in the Church (Lombard: IL: Lombard Peace Center, 2007). From a 2011 workshop in Louisville, KY.

      9 Bill Adler, Dear Pastor (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1980).

      10 Walter Lord, A Night to Remember (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005), 10.

      11 Ibid, 12.

      12 James Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere (Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 1978), 88.

      13 Iona & Peter Opie, eds., I Saw Esau (Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 1992), 25.

      14 James Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, 81.

      15 Henri de Lubac, quoted in Kathleen Norris, Acedia & Me (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008), 143

      16 Tad Tuleja, Quirky Quotations, 59.

      17 Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2006), 88.

      18 Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (New York: Hyperion, 2008), 116.

      19 David Kinnaman, You Lost Me (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2011).