Despite the annual spike in church attendance that accompanies the Easter holiday, those who identify as Christians are increasingly abandoning weekly services altogether, according to a new report from the Barna Group.

The “dechurched” now make up 10 percent of the U.S. population — up from 7 percent in 2004, Barna says. The report defines the dechurched as self-identifying Christians who attended church in the past and strongly agree that their religious faith is very important in their lives, yet have not attended church in the past six months.

 While 83 percent of this group claims to have an active prayer life, only 26 percent read the Bible.

So, who is disappearing from the pews? Eighty percent of the dechurched are between the ages of 33 and 70 — Boomers and members of Generation X — and 61 percent are women. (Though Millennials are the least churched generation, they are significantly less likely either to identify as Christian or say their faith is very important.)

While 83 percent of this group claims to have an active prayer life, only 26 percent read the Bible (compared to 56 percent of church-attending Christians). More than half of the dechurched agree that all religions teach basically the same thing, as opposed to 68 percent of church attenders and 86 percent of evangelicals.

They are also less likely to share their faith with others, Barna says. Just 28 percent believe they have a responsibility to proselytize, compared to more than half of practicing Christians and 100 percent of evangelicals.

The Assemblies of God affirms the Bible principle that Christians should “not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing” (Hebrews 10:25).

“We do not go to church regularly to be saved; we go because we are saved,” a statement endorsed by the Commission on Doctrinal Purity and the Executive Presbytery says. “The question is not ‘Can a believer maintain his Christianity and develop spiritually without attending church?’ Instead, the real question is ‘Can a believer afford to lose all the benefits and rewards that come from obeying the inspired command of Scripture not to stop meeting together with fellow believers?’ ”