The PEERS Trend Chart

This chart shows the "worldview position" of high school youth from the Christian community; approximately 100,000 students and 1,000 Christian schools

To Whom it MUST Concern:

This Worldview Trend Chart reveals both good and bad news for America.

The bad news? At least 90% of youth from Christian homes are increasingly abandoning the Christian worldview in favor of some brand of a secular, anti-Christian worldview. We couldn’t do worse if we tried. America is looking more and more like Europe, where less than 10% of the population is in Church on any given Sunday of the year. If a church does not teach its own posterity to “observe all things that I have commanded you,” how can it possibly be expected to accomplish Christ’s command to make disciples of all nations?

But there is also some good news on the Trend Chart! In some Christian schools students ARE in fact learning and embracing a mature biblical worldview. The question is: How are they doing this and will your school/church be one of them?

We encourage you to take at least these measures to aid in reversing the "worldview trend" as shown on this chart:"

  • 1. Take the PEERS Test yourself and have your children take it as well.
    • Take the Test Now
  • 2. Encourage the staff of your church to do the same.
  • 3. Have your youth groups tested, grades 7-12.
  • 4. Compare results of youth to parents to church staff to see how well you are “equipping the saints” of the next generation.
  • 5. Implement the worldview study program, PILLARS.

There are only three plausible responses to the Trend Chart:

Number One
The data are inaccurate- the test is somehow flawed. Other data show that our youth are doing just fine.
Number Two
The data may be accurate, but the items on the test are irrelevant to the life of our youth or health of the Church. Based on what?
Number Three
The data are accurate and highly relevant. Therefore, we must make changes to reverse the negative trend line in our church/school.

Unless one can substantially prove that one of the first two options is true, there is only one choice: Change.

Abraham Kuyper

“When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace is your sin.”

Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) Prime Minister, Netherlands