OBEDIENCE
July 25, 2026 Dear Heritage Bible Church Family and Friends, Even though Generation Z folks, those ages 14-29, are expressing a renewed interest in spiritual things, the heartbreaking statistic still hasn’t changed. Two-thirds of today’s youth will leave the church by the time they reach college age, and very few will return. In fact, according to Lifeway Research, “70–88% of youth born in evangelical homes leave the faith after one year in a secular college.” Now, I’ve said the same thing since 1975, and I now have the statistical data to back it up. For the last 50 years, American churches…