Friday, August 9, 2013

Recommended blog post - Why Millennials are Leaving the Church

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/27/why-millennials-are-leaving-the-church/

"We want to be challenged to live lives of holiness, not only when it comes to sex, but also when it comes to living simply, caring for the poor and oppressed, pursuing reconciliation, engaging in creation care and becoming peacemakers.
You can’t hand us a latte and then go about business as usual and expect us to stick around. We’re not leaving the church because we don’t find the cool factor there; we’re leaving the church because we don’t find Jesus there.
Like every generation before ours and every generation after, deep down, we long for Jesus.
Now these trends are obviously true not only for millennials but also for many folks from other generations. Whenever I write about this topic, I hear from forty-somethings and grandmothers, Generation Xers and retirees, who send me messages in all caps that read “ME TOO!” So I don’t want to portray the divide as wider than it is.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Corneila,

What stopped you from posting from August 2012 until now? I enjoyed your posted and copied a few of them. May I pass on and share the knowledge you have to others?

Thank you for your posts! They were very insightful to me today!

Everyone has Value!

Frances