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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "False Teachers - Surest Sign of God's Wrath":
The post-baby boom generation is not all that interested in church growth churches says the NY Times:
http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2010/08/15/cool-christianity/
excerpt: And the further irony,” he adds, “is that the younger generations who are less impressed by whiz-bang technology, who often see through what is slick and glitzy, and who have been on the receiving end of enough marketing to nauseate them, are as likely to walk away from these oh-so-relevant churches as to walk into them.”
If the evangelical Christian leadership thinks that “cool Christianity” is a sustainable path forward, they are severely mistaken. As a twentysomething, I can say with confidence that when it comes to church, we don’t want cool as much as we want real.
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Garrett has left a new comment on your post "Drive 10 - Taking It Off Road - No, I am Serious":
Yes, yes, yes! This NY Times writer is spot on. I researched this during school. Baby boomers (in general) are either looking to please the next generation, attempting to be hip themselves, or are simply uninterested in church growth-ism. I can observe in all my local WELS churches that large groups (possibly the majority) of high school teens and college students are interested in the familiar comfort of a traditional church and liturgy.
Take modern television, as another example: spewing at us hypnotizing marketing schemes and 10 minutes of content panned into 30, when we only want to relax. Men look back at the Victorian era in how people managed to live with sewage in the streets, the state of schools, smog, lack of woman's right to vote, etc. In 100 years, I think historians will look back and shake their heads and wonder how we managed to live with this entrepreneurial marketing effluent. I almost prefer the sewage in the streets.
Yes, yes, yes! This NY Times writer is spot on. I researched this during school. Baby boomers (in general) are either looking to please the next generation, attempting to be hip themselves, or are simply uninterested in church growth-ism. I can observe in all my local WELS churches that large groups (possibly the majority) of high school teens and college students are interested in the familiar comfort of a traditional church and liturgy.
Take modern television, as another example: spewing at us hypnotizing marketing schemes and 10 minutes of content panned into 30, when we only want to relax. Men look back at the Victorian era in how people managed to live with sewage in the streets, the state of schools, smog, lack of woman's right to vote, etc. In 100 years, I think historians will look back and shake their heads and wonder how we managed to live with this entrepreneurial marketing effluent. I almost prefer the sewage in the streets.
