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Already Gone: Why Your Kids Will Quit Church and What You Can Do to Stop It with Ken Ham

Already Gone: Why Your Kids Will Quit Church and What You Can Do to Stop It

Overview Quiz

1. What statistic anchors Ham's whole talk? *

A. About two-thirds of young people leave the church by college age

B. Half of all churches close each year

C. Most pastors deny the resurrection

D. Nine in ten adults never attend church

2. Which four texts does Ham build the message around? *

A. The four Gospels

B. Issachar, Psalm 11, 1 Peter 3:15, and Mark 16:15

C. The Ten Commandments

D. Genesis 1 through 4

3. In Ham's framework, what are the only two ultimate starting points? *

A. Faith and reason

B. Science and religion

C. God's word and man's word

D. The Old and New Testaments

4. Who conducted the Already Gone survey of 1,000 twenty-somethings? *

A. America's Research Group, led by Britt Beamer

B. The Barna Group alone

C. A secular university

D. The Southern Baptist Convention

5. What did the research find about when doubts begin? *

A. Mostly after college graduation

B. Only during adulthood

C. Never, for church kids

D. Mostly by the end of middle or high school

6. What surprising finding did Ham report about Sunday school attendance? *

A. It guaranteed lifelong faith

B. Regular attendees were often more likely to doubt

C. It had no measurable effect at all

D. Few church children ever attended

7. What does Ham say salvation is conditioned upon, per Romans 10:9? *

A. Belief in a young earth

B. Rejecting all modern science

C. Faith in Christ, not the earth's age

D. Perfect knowledge of Genesis

8. What distinction does Ham draw between kinds of science? *

A. Hard science versus soft science

B. Christian science versus secular science

C. Old science versus new science

D. Observational versus historical science

9. What does Ham say the church should stop calling the Bible's accounts? *

A. "Stories," which now suggests fiction

B. "Scripture," which sounds too formal

C. "History," which sounds too dry

D. "Doctrine," which sounds too harsh

10. What is Ham's central remedy for losing the next generation? *

A. More entertaining church programs

B. Larger church buildings

C. Fewer difficult questions

D. Rebuilding the foundation of biblical authority

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