Non-religious Americans are no longer the majority of the “unchurched” population according to a recent Barna Group study, which reported that 61 percent of churchless people identified themselves as Christians.

Barna reported that almost 65 million American adults have not attended any church activities or services in the past six months, while about 7.1 million of them say a personal commitment to Jesus Christ is important to them.

Barna referred to an earlier study in which 37 percent of non-churchgoing Americans avoided churches “because of negative past experiences in churches or with church people,” according to their findings.