Attrition of Adult Children of Seventh-day Adventist Clergy
Martin's Doctoral Dissertation as to why Pastors children leave the church. As a Pastor this is definitely something that I would be interested in reading.
Among his findings:
- The strongest predictor of future faithfulness as an adult is whether the PK during growing up years takes initiative to approach a clergy parent to discuss spiritual matters.
- There is no greater cause of attrition than attempting to shield children from knowledge of, or to resist discussion about, church or denominational conflict.
- While parental conservatism regarding lifestyle standards is not statistically significant in attrition, legalism in teaching or practicing those principles is a major negative factor.
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I do not believe this is limited to SDA. Unfortunately, the present generation is dropping out in record numbers. We can probably learn a lot from Martin Weber.Lynden Williams said:Martin's Doctoral Dissertation as to why Pastors children leave the church.
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Thanks for spotlighting this Lynden.
Super.Tramp said:Unfortunately, the present generation is dropping out in record numbers.
Super, do you have a reference to a particular resource which supports this reported acceleration. (This is a genuine inquiry I'm not baiting)
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Super.Tramp said:We can probably learn a lot from Martin Weber.
https://www.logos.com/product/50106/attrition-of-adult-children-of-seventh-day-adventist-clergy The webpage for this resource (topic of thread) has links for two other related resources.
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Thank you, Lynden. I've been told by researchers that attrition principles in my data reflect attrition studies of the general church population--so far as they apply. Parsonages are unique places for children to develop their faith, so this study has particular application to pastors.
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Remember that most if not all these studies are of the victims of attrition. My study focuses on parents and the church environment in which they were raised. Specifically: what type of parents and church environments are more likely to develop children of retention vs. attrition. The Baptist seminary for which I conducted this study said that along with unique SDA factors there were many common factors that apply to clergy homes in general.
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