Evangelicals’ Theology of the Church Must Be Born Again

Most people who stopped attending evangelical churches in recent years are not “nones” or exvangelicals.
In fact, many still self-identify as born-again Christians with perfectly orthodox Christian beliefs, according to Jim Davis and Michael Graham’s newly released The Great Dechurching. These Christians believe in the Trinity, the atonement, and the reality of Jesus as their personal Savior.
They just don’t go to church.
It might be easy to imagine that the millions of dechurched individuals are an aberration whose evangelical identities are somehow suspect. Surely, they don’t really understand what the Christian faith...