According to a leading research study institute, The Barna Group, reported nearly six in ten (59%) young Christians end up becoming inactive church members or fall away from the faith. Another book entitled, Already Gone, based on a 2009 research from American’s Research Group revealed that two thirds of young people are leaving the church when they go to college. Devil’s thrust directed at the youth embraced the formation of a postmodern attitude and emergence of superficial Christianity. The lack of the family’s spiritual influence and the isolation of the church’s function play the ultimate role in reasons why millennials leave the faith and the church. Strengthening the spiritual life of families and changing the focus of the church will
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First of all, the formation of a postmodern attitude. According to an article written by Jim Leffel and Dennis McCallum, a higher education “openly promotes cynicism about truth and reason.” They question the modernity’s assumptions about knowledge, truth and reason; and believe that the only truth that one thinks is the true Scripture, which is the absolute truth, is rejected by a postmodern culture. This kind of approach to religion makes sense to them and it may be causing the lack of true church …show more content…
Even though many churches have youth and/or teen ministries, those ministries only make tangential contact with adults and the mission of the church. But instead of seizing the opportunity to remedy this situation, the church has compounded the problem. The problem is isolation, and the church’s solution, though well-intentioned, has resulted in more isolation.
Even within the church’s programs and leadership, many youths were lost because they were made to feel as if they opinions and roles counted. Many of the members felt that their roles in the church didn’t give much input and they were feeling as if they were given superficial feedbacks. These kinds of isolation is not meeting the need and thus youths are leaving the church for they have been abandoned by
First of all, the formation of a postmodern attitude. According to an article written by Jim Leffel and Dennis McCallum, a higher education “openly promotes cynicism about truth and reason.” They question the modernity’s assumptions about knowledge, truth and reason; and believe that the only truth that one thinks is the true Scripture, which is the absolute truth, is rejected by a postmodern culture. This kind of approach to religion makes sense to them and it may be causing the lack of true church …show more content…
Even though many churches have youth and/or teen ministries, those ministries only make tangential contact with adults and the mission of the church. But instead of seizing the opportunity to remedy this situation, the church has compounded the problem. The problem is isolation, and the church’s solution, though well-intentioned, has resulted in more isolation.
Even within the church’s programs and leadership, many youths were lost because they were made to feel as if they opinions and roles counted. Many of the members felt that their roles in the church didn’t give much input and they were feeling as if they were given superficial feedbacks. These kinds of isolation is not meeting the need and thus youths are leaving the church for they have been abandoned by