You walk away because nothing seems to make sense. Certainly in the context of the culture you live and breathe, it seems to make no sense. The problem is that growing up in church and knowing God are two different things; they do not automatically accompany one another. They could and should but its not automatic.
At some point, though, you begin to realize God is playing a much deeper game and you’re part of it.
And you begin to love him; not just believing in him but love. That doesn’t happen on anyone’s time table and it doesn’t happen when someone ticks off your check boxes as in the above article.
You begin to know more than you can explain, and what you want to know can’t even be put into words. The issues listed in this piece are just surface flotsam.
Real church doesn’t happen when you sit your seat into a pew, but when the Spirit takes up residence in and around you and begins to move the furniture around in your life to suit himself. Until that happens nothing is ever going to satisfy or make sense.
Standing O for your post!!!
That is true. The Holy Spirit changes us. We don’t change by ourselves. What if the reason for most Millennials leaving the Church is because God has not called them yet, if He ever does? What if God is removing Himself from the world and it is not our culture erasing Him from the world?
I was nodding along with you as I read your post, thinking it was cool that someone else was seeing and saying the same things.