jesus outside the box: jesus people outside the church

• Between 1991 and 2004, the number of unchurched people increased 92%, from 39 million to 75 million.
• Fifty-four percent identify themselves as Christians, and 10 million (11%) are "born again" Christians.

rebecca (of jesus outside the box) cites Barna research and she wonders:

So, no, the husband and I are far from alone in running far and fast away from the institutional church. I just wish I could find some of these unchurched Christians. Dechurched people, where are you hiding???

By definition, it might be hard to find them gathering anywhere but they - and comment about them - definitely has a strong presence on the web.

• Tim Stafford also recently commented in Christianity Today on this phenomenon and took a strong stance for churchless Christians returning to the church.
  
  
• Reinhold cites John Barrett's estimate that there are 112 million folks in this category.
  
  
• Craig Bird, in a recent Faithworks article, speaks quite a bit about Alan Jamieson 2002 book Churchless Faith (also see a Reality Magazine article by Jamieson with the same title).
  
  
• Andrew Strom's book The "Out-of-Church" Christians is available online.