I think he is correct not wanting to be treated like a patient in a eating disorder clinic. Preach the gospel word for word. Stop passing out donuts and name tags. Stop having “mission trips” to exotic lands when there are probably more in need within a 20 mile radius of your church. Stop saying it is okay to be part of the world and do the things you do because that is the ways things are today and we cannot offend people by pointing those things out. No prosperity gospel unless tied to Biblical points, no cherry picking verses.
He didn’t say preach the gospel word for word.
He is giving the failed emergent church blather. It sounds right enough on the surface because everyone focuses on the entertainment-church criticism. Don’t let that fool you. He wants to take advantage of a real flaw to bribe the church into bigger destruction. I say “bribe” because he is taunting with the promise of his and his generations return.
Appreciate the criticism but beware of whose advice you are listening to. He is an admitted doubter who has never really embraced the church. He needs more real Truth than he seems willing to admit. He comes to church saying he is the teacher, not the student.
That generation is VERY VERY vulnerable to false doctrines and false teachers. Maybe they will grow up and really learn what they are rejecting and the error they are embracing. Or maybe they will just arrogantly stick around and try to destroy whatever good is still left in their churches while they strut around like pharisees praising their own humility, liturgy,, charity, etc......all for others to see. Because they are the generation who sees everything as ALL ABOUT THEM.