Barna posted the results of a new study on why Christians leave the church. (Check out the whole article here: http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church.) Short version: Churches seem overprotective. Teens’ and twentysomethings’ experience of Christianity is shallow. Churches come across as antagonistic to science. Young Christians’ church experiences related to sexuality are often simplistic, judgmental. They wrestle with the exclusive nature of Christianity. The church feels unfriendly to those who doubt. These are no doubt the reasons people think they are leaving the church, but I’d like to propose a few reasons I think are the real problem. 1. People don’t trust the church. God commissioned the church and takes care of it,…