Marc5Solas has some great insight on why young people are leaving the church and what we can do about it.
Insight leads to wisdom. Wisdom leads to repentance and action. Let us repent for leading our youth astray. Let us act to rectify this tragedy.
We all know them, the kids who were raised in church. They were stars of the youth group. They maybe even sang in the praise band or led worship. And then… they graduate from High School and they leave church. What happened?
It seems to happen so often that I wanted to do some digging; To talk to these kids and get some honest answers. I work in a major college town with a large number of 20-somethings.
Nearly all of them were raised in very typical evangelical churches. Nearly all of them have left the church with no intention of returning. I spend a lot of time with them and it takes very little to get them to vent, and I’m happy to listen. So, after lots of hours spent in coffee shops and after buying a few lunches, here are the most common thoughts taken from dozens of conversations. I hope some of them make you angry. Not at the message, but at the failure of our pragmatic replacement of the gospel of the cross with an Americanized gospel of glory.
This isn’t a negative “beat up on the church” post. I love the church, and I want to see American evangelicalism return to the gospel of repentance and faith in Christ for the forgiveness of sins; not just as something on our “what we believe” page on our website, but as the core of what we preach from our pulpits to our children, our youth, and our adults.
Read more here: Top 10 Reasons our Kids Leave Church | Marc5Solas
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Marc wrote as you quoted: “This isn’t a negative “beat up on the church” post.” But the fact of the matter is that what Marc wrote is a beat up the church post. Our children have reached an age where Romans 1:18-32 applies to them as it does to all of us.
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The church stands indicted and needs to repent.
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Michael, thanks for the good article. The church has come up with many different approaches in trying to keep youth “connected,” but the culture is winning. Christian parents often take a “hands off” approach and expect the church to do the bulk of teaching their children about God and the Bible (guilty!) and therein lies the biggest problem. I see Marc5Solas stopped posting in 2015. Too bad because I liked the article.
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Good article
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