Increasingly, we are becoming the Fractured States of America instead of the united ones. It is heartbreaking that we see school shootings in the news with alarming frequency. Gun violence is on the rise, and the problem isn’t the guns. The problem is that America has lost its sense of shared values and moral compass. Instead of unifying, we’re drifting apart.

According to ChurchTrac, since 2000 there has been a steady decline in regular church attendance marked by a similar rise in no attendance.¹ Occasional attendance remains the steady. That means we keep the lukewarm, but lose the passionate ones. And the once passionate aren’t coming back.