“Unchurched” is a term that was new to me (no doubt because I am unchurched) but there it is in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary: “Not associated with a church; not churchgoing.” I ran across it in an article in the Toronto Star this weekend called “Starting a church from scratch.”
The article talks about “church planting,” or opening new churches to reach potential new members. “You’ve got a whole generation of people who have never been in the habit of setting the alarm on Sunday morning,” it quotes a church official, noting that church planting is the number one way to reach people who are unchurched.
Looking at the unchurched Millennials in my own family, I’d have to say they (church officials) had better have a plan B that makes church somehow relevant to their lives. Or maybe that point will come when/if the boys want to get married and the intended wants it to take place in a church.
