Four Ways Churches and Parents Prepare Individuals to Lose Their Faith and How They Can Instill a Faith That Endures
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The statistics speak for themselves; record numbers of individuals who at one time identified as Christians are deconverting from the faith and identifying as unbelievers. Why is this happening and what can be done to prevent it? A Recipe for Disaster seeks to answer those questions by focusing on the four ways churches and parents unwittingly contribute to the deconversion process. By over-preparing, under-preparing, ill-preparing, and painfully preparing those they are responsible to disciple into mature believers, churches and parents instead set them up for a crisis of faith that all too often leads to the loss of faith. In response to each of the four methods of poor preparation, A Recipe for Disaster offers a recipe for success, four alternative methods of preparation designed to instill lifelong faith.
John Marriott, PhD, teaches in the Philosophy department at Biola University, and is the former program and research coordinator of the Biola University Center for Christian Thought and a former faculty affiliate with Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program. He is a leading expert in the study of deconversion. His books include The Anatomy of Deconversion, Before You Go, and Set Adrift.
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