Time to stop writing about why millenials are leaving the church
An open letter to open letters about everything wrong with the Church
Are you tired of people writing about everything wrong with the church and how to get young people back in the pews? Or is it an important part of edifying the church with constructive Godly correction?
In an open letter to Faithit.com, writer Whitney Capps says it’s time to stop endlessly debating and take action.
“It’s easy to love and serve a sexy church. But to love and serve a struggling one, that’s another level of Christ-likeness,” Capps says.
“If I can glean anything from these open letters, it’s this–maybe people (my people, Millennials) are leaving the Church because we are spoiled, selfish, uneasily satisfied, hypercritical, consumeristic and socially enlightened but biblically light-weight.”
A sentiment ChristianWeek columnist Tim Perry wrote about earlier this month on the movie, Calvary, “Father Lavelle is also a parable for Christians now living in fading sunlight of faith in the West. Here we are, hurrying hither and yon: sociologists writing, and Christian leaders reading, article after article, graph after graph, about millennials and nones and somes and together making suggestions about what we can do to get people back to church, or interested in Jesus, or to reconsider faith. When all the while we know that nightfall is beyond our control.”
Read Capps full letter here.
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