"The American church is declining" would be my synopsis of https://marc5solas.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/top-10-reasons-our-kids-leave-church/. This blog asserted that 70% of kids leave church when they leave high-school. Half of them return a decade later.
If these statistics are true and the trend were to continue, then the church would be losing 35% of its population with every generation. (I do not know how reliable the source of these statistics; nor do I know if the trend will continue.)
The point that the blogger seems to be making is that we are packaging church wrongly. Church is a culture that they do not feel the need for. It feels superficial. It does not answer all their questions or all their needs. Theology is "dumbed down" such that when the kids are treated as intelligent enough to ask the hard questions, the church does not have the answers.
Do you find church to be like this?
The blogger seems to think that our children and youth need to be confronted with the weight of the law and the freedom of the Gospel in order to appreciate church. What do you think?
I think that people need to meet the real Jesus. Church does not have to be a culture of its own. Church does not need to be light Bible studies all the time. Church does not need to be separated from community as though Christians are weird.
I think Church is really ordinary people who have met Jesus sharing together. It does not need to be a separate culture, apart from trying to live God's way instead of any other way. What do you think?
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