1. We’re more educated than previous generations, but the church doesn’t continue to feed our minds.
translation: We’re WAAAAY too smart to keep believing in this God business.
2. We came of age in a recession, but the church hasn’t changed its teachings about money.
translation: We want to be preached a Prosperity Gospel that affirms our sense of entitlement.
3. We’re still processing bad experiences with the church, and that’s going to take time.
tranlation: Where the Church and I are concerned, forgiveness is a one-way street.
4. We have good ideas, and nobody cares.
translationz: Just like how these big corporations won’t take me seriously when I apply for the CEO job.
5. Everyone assumes we’re leaving the church because we want to sin, but that’s simply not the case.
translation: You can’t want what you can’t define. And our education has seen to it that we’re clueless about sin.
Very good.
4. We have good ideas, and nobody cares.
translation: I’m smarter than you. Listen to me dammit!
You obviously only read the bold type and brought your prejudices with it.
So a millennial finally speaks in representation of all other ones why they are leaving the church, and we are left…with a long article of incoherent drivel?
So the points of leaving are:
1. We’re more educated than previous generations, but the church doesn’t continue to feed our minds. For those of us who grew up in church, it’s very rare for us to learn anything new on a Sunday…. We get bored, real bored.
A recent survey shows that young people know less about the Bible any any earlier generations. Less than 1 in 20 young people can name all 10 commandments. Over 60% don’t know the Story of the Prodigal son. If you are “bored”, guess who’s fault it is?
“2. We came of age in a recession, but the church hasn’t changed its teachings about money.”
She’s right about the prosperity gospel, but jeez, there are thousands of churches out there that teach different things!
the primary times when church programming is scheduled – which makes it very difficult for us to participate in the full life of the grown-up church. We’re not skipping church because we’re lazy or un-committed; we’re skipping it because we have no other choice.
Actually, the millennial generation is working fewer hours than any previous generation. What an attitude of UTTER helplessness.
“3. We’re still processing bad experiences with the church, and that’s going to take time.
We are the children of the Moral Majority and the religious right. The religious homeschooling movement. The Reagan era.”
The Reagan era? The oldest of this generation would have been about 7 when he left office, and his era somehow scarred them? Seems she just tipped her hat as just liberal democrat.
4. “We have good ideas – we’ve been developing them since we were in youth group – but no one seems to care. The church leadership is still dominated by those of our parents’ and grandparents’ generations”
So this is somehow unique to this generation?
5. ” Everyone assumes we’re leaving the church because we want to sin, but that’s simply not the case.
We leave our Christian bubbles and begin to befriend people who don’t believe the same way we do. We realize they’re pretty cool people and not the Satan-worshipping drug-pushing evolution-believing sex fiends we’ve been told inhabit the entire non-bubble world. ”
Again another helpless excuse. There are countless of churches with rainbow flags hanging outside that LOVE having such members.
This article is so typical of the “my behavior is not ideal, but it all 100% someone else’s fault attitude”