Monday, July 29, 2013
Why millennials are leaving the church
Rachel Held Evans, in an article for CNN’s Belief Blog, revisits an often discussed topic as young people (and, as Rachel points out, not only young people!) are leaving and staying away from our churches. When church leaders ask her to speak about this and she explains that the church must change if it is going to attract and hold young people, many pastors just don’t get it. They automatically assume that superficial changes, such as changing music styles or adding a coffee shop, will fix the problem. Not so, says Rachel. “What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance. We want an end to the culture wars. We want a truce between science and faith. We want to be known for what we stand for, not what we are against. We want to ask questions that don’t have predetermined answers.”
This article is a load of bunk. If this were the case, the liberal progressiev mainstream denominations would be doing quite well. Instead, they’re losing members faster than any others. I think we merely have a generation of superificial and self-centered bores, instread