Positive is Positive and Negative is Negative

On Wednesday November 14 an article came out in the Christian Post about the effect of negative and positive experiences of adults as children in Church.

Here's an excerpt from the article, found here.

"Fifty-six percent of Americans who no longer attend services say their attendance as a child has had a positive influence on their life; 55 percent feel their childhood attendance gave them a good moral foundation; 51 percent say they are glad they attended as a child; 48 percent say it gave them important religious knowledge; 35 percent believe it helped them grow spiritually; 34 percent feel it helped them prepare for life as an adult; and 27 percent say it deepened their spiritual faith.

On the negative side, 31 percent of adults currently not attending services say their childhood attendance turned them off to organized religion; 24 percent believe that past experience is not relevant to their life today; and 13 percent believe it sent them down a different spiritual path than the one they were on at that time."

You can read more of the article here.

So, what do you think of the findings and what do you think it means for why and how we do Children's Ministry? Post your answers in the comments section.