If you have become interested in this topic by watching my previous post on David Kinnaman’s book You Lost Me, here is a more extended interview with the author of this book.
You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church
If you have become interested in this topic by watching my previous post on David Kinnaman’s book You Lost Me, here is a more extended interview with the author of this book.
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I tend to agree with you, Sam. Some of the lucid evangelical leaders that I meet these days share the same pessimism. And the problem, as you say, is not that we do not have enough religion (in fact we may have way more than even a religiously inclined person may need, let alone non-religious people, like ourselves), but that Christ has been displaced as a central concern of our spiritual life and was replaced with various other things: biblilatry, in the case of evangelicals; psychological therapeutics, in the case of liberals and a plethora of others for Catholics and Orthodox.
We are experts in missing the point.
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Not interested for personal reasons so to speak, more like a hobby. It didn’t give me more insight than I already have. It has enforced furthermore the idea that the future for the evangelicals is really unpredictable. The split between generations and between different ideological currents will probably grow to the point that they will become almost strangers to each other. It is a lottery to predict which group, the conservative or liberals or any other in between, is going to grow faster and larger.
One thing that saddens me is how little talk of the Jesus as a role-model for leaders you can see these days; clinging desperately to the Holly Book almost as a replacement instead as a tool. This cannot be a good sign for sure.
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