Here are 15 reasons the church in the U.S. is shrinking that I've observed, can you think of others? 

Now this is not a scientific study, nor do I think it is exhaustive, but merely taken from things I see, read and study.

1. Many Christian homes lack relationship with their teens and many teens say they are not 'real close' or 'close at all' with their parents. Where once parents and grandparents were sought for advice, now Google has replaced them.

2. King James Bible requires them to lean a new language in order to read and understand the Bible.

3. The largest growing sub-culture are those with addictions, or domestic violence, sexual assault, childhood abuse, teen suicide and teen pregnancy, which are never mentioned in many churches.

4. Kids are taught what "not to do" but are not engaged in charitable ventures where they learn "what to do" 'first hand and personal' to minister to the last, least and lost, as well as the addict and abuse victim.

Also in most churches adult and youth share few or no joint activities and there is Poor assimilation and participation of younger generations in the life of the body because of youth groups, so Kids connect with peers and move on with peers who have no families, familiarity or faith built up and around the adult congregation.

5. Much of todays preaching is passionless and family directed so little of it relates to teens and twenty year olds. Countless hours are spent on "End Times" theology which has replaced heroism, nobility, sacrifice and charity.

6. Many churches use hell (eternal conscious torment) as incentive to believe, and this is will be one of the first objections they will face with their peers outside the church.

7. In some churches it's taught that they don't need to read anything but the Bible and when they face well-educated people they find they can't defend their faith.

8. Sex education is very limited in many Christian homes and once they are out they are faced with unlimited temptations they are not prepared for.

9. Some Christian homes "chase the kids off to Vanity Fair by prim and proper Christians, with their lowered eyebrows and pursed lips, their motive scratching’s, their emotional stinginess", and harsh discipline without love and mercy. I hear many testimonies of cruelty in Christian homes done under the pretense of godly discipline.

10. Some Christian men require "submission" from their wives in order rule with an iron fist and to reduce the lives of Christian women to glorified slaves.

11. Some Christian homes are stiff, rigid and hateful towards the LGBT community and the young Christian faces debates where they are ill equipped to defend their position. The conversations in may homes centers around protest and lamenting over the evils of the age and do little charitable ventures to overcome evil with good.

12. Traditional Christian music and hymns, though rich in content, are completely disconnected from our culture. Even most contemporary Christian music is dated.

13. Many Christian homes are legalistic and speak in 'black and white' only. The teens are not taught to listen or debate in a loving and understanding way, so when they enter a world that is all gray, they falter.

14. Parents give their kids to the public education system and they are educated out and away from faith and tradition. They are assimilated in the thinking and practices and pressures of a pagan, secular worldview. Peers disciple them on the values, interests and actions of faithless families. Educators teach the godless principles of a godless state.

15. Faithful Artists have lost their place within the church and culture. We are still singing Christian composers in some secular arts classes in schools, the last hold our Christian past has on these institutions. If the arts are the last vestige of evangelism on a post Christian nation, maybe, just maybe it should be the first priority in reclaiming a new generation.