Ping to read later.
Sadly, not surprised. The Joel Osteens of this world are having a deleterious effect, diluting the truth of The Gospel.
But, sadly, these misguided youths will have to answer for themselves, unless The Lord sees fit to open their eyes.
-Hoss
If these same young people were surveyed ten or twenty years from now & the majority still express the same views they do now, I’d be shocked.
I didn’t read this whole article, but many would be able to find parallels to the early years of Reform Judaism in the US to see where this leads. The obvious difference is that this new form of Christianity will marry into a population that was once itself Christian, as opposed to the religious intermarrying of 2nd and 3rd generation Reform Jewish children.
Jewish tradition reinvents itself every generation, and early Christianity did also. Synthesis isn’t to be opposed outright, it must be guided by a steady hand though.
:::Younger generations are not bound by traditional parameters of the Christian faith and instead are embracing values that are not necessarily based on biblical foundations, according to a recent analysis by The Barna Group.:::
The Reformers started a fine tradition.
The two predominant themes of the Bible are Love and Righteousness. Neither being more or less important than the other. This strain of “Christian” is doing everything they can to eliminate the righteousness part because it doesn’t tickle their itching ears. They love the world more than the Word.
The new atheism - there’s a God, and by golly He thinks just like me!
They're right, and it is the self-righteous, spiteful behavior of many evangelicals that is fueling it.
Ameriocans have been reformulating Christianity since the 18th Century. The evangelical Christianity of the Jacksonian period was very different from the Protestantism of the colonial period.