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The most frequent Overall, one fifth cited intellectual or philosophical
were internal, curiosity, and similar numbers said attending
personal and a church service or other Christian event had
existential issues kick-started their curiosity, but three sets of
factors were most common: internal, personal or
like:
existential problems; actions or words of Christians
they knew; and some sort of supernatural
I needed help
experience.
with life
37% For some, their experience of brokenness was
clear: fractured relationships, substance misuse
and mental health challenges. For others,
I was looking for things looked great from the outside. They had
meaning everything they thought would make them happy:
34% family, money, career and friends. Yet despite this,

they still felt like something was missing.
A difficult or painful
experience
32% “

I wanted to be a
better person
26% On the outside, and on

paper, you would have
thought I would be the
happiest. I had everything I
ever wanted. My partner had
In the interviews, the a successful business, which
vast majority said meant I didn’t have to work.
they felt some kind of We had two children, which
dissatisfaction with is all I have wanted. We lived
their life before they in a nice little village. And I
started to explore just thought, Wow, why am
Christian faith. They I not happy? Because I had
described this using what I’d always thought I
language such as wanted and thought that
“emptiness”, “something I had everything that I
missing” and “a hole I wanted in life. But actually, I
couldn’t fill”. was quite miserable.”

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