{"product_id":"why-our-teenagers-leave-the-church-author-roger-l-dudley","title":"Why Our Teenagers Leave the Church","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #480091;\"\u003eBetween 40 and 50 percent of Adventist youth\u003cbr\u003eleave the church in their 20s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #480091;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy? How can we keep them? How can we win them back?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the culmination of a magnificent obsession. For more than ten years  Roger Dudley traced the lives of 1500 teenagers as they grew up and  often  grew disillusioned. Refusing to let them leave in peace  Dudley bombarded them with questionnaires. Many of them answered. This is their story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDudley puts faces on the statistics by focusing on individual case studies. He cites the heart-wrenching testimony of desperately lonely people surrounded by uncaring members. They want to belong  to be needed  to be heard  to be loved. They made some mistakes. We share their pain and their dreams and feel the dissonant cadences of their troubled hearts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome who never left explain what kept them in the church. Many who left want to return. 'Without God  life is hell ' wrote one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you want to know what the youth of your church are not telling you  read this book. It includes the responses of a group of kids who were asked to design the ideal church  and an appendix explaining the causes of 'adolescent heresy ' the conflict spawned by the teenage struggle for autonomy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pacific Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41320044167219,"sku":"9780828014588","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0103\/8902\/8915\/files\/why_our_teenagers_leave_the_church_roger_dudley.jpg?v=1774920474","url":"https:\/\/clovisabc.com\/products\/why-our-teenagers-leave-the-church-author-roger-l-dudley","provider":"ClovisABC.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}