Posted on 04/30/2023 12:22:30 PM PDT by Skywise
As thousands of college students prepare to descend on the University of Oklahoma’s football stadium for a faith-based concert, one pastor says he’s not at all surprised by Generation Z’s enthusiasm.
“This generation is really kind of tired of all the rules and rituals that come along with religion, and they are setting out to really forge a faith that is authentic, experiential and real,” said pastor Jarrett Stevens of the Soul City Church in Chicago.
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One of the things Stevens believes may be driving younger generations away from religion is many institutions’ understanding of inclusivity.
“Having grown up around church, there are many things that the church has gotten wrong, and inclusivity is one of them,” he said. “There are many more. We’ve been on the wrong side of significant issues throughout history.”
It’s some of those historical issues that Stevens thinks prevent many members of Generation Z from accepting faith.
“I think that’s why people are wanting to get past all of that, and into the center where real faith and real relationship with God really lies,” Stevens said. “I just am imploring our generation — older generations — to get behind this generation and get out of the way of this generation.”
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What kind a BS pastor is this?
Sounds very liberal.
Only sinners should be allowed in church.
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I see what you did too. :)
But I’ll add that the modern church is increasingly insisting that people wear their sin on their sleeve and revel in it.
The sheep need protection from the wolves. Knowing which is which is sometimes difficult without the Holy Spirit.
Anyone else looking for a faithful servant of the Lord Jesus Christ to leave all their worldly wealth to?/ snark
What are the odds that this knucklehead is probably already involved in some serious immorality that makes him Biblically disqualified from ministry?
The passages about “By their fruits you will know them.” comes to mind.
Millstone.
Rope.
Neck.
The Abyss.
Buh bye, “pastor”
“Does anybody else look back fondly before marketers created Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z etc? We were all just people back in the good old days and before these nonsense terms were invented.”
One of the many ways used to divide people.
But there are other subtle methods as well.
Here in Iowa you see all the “God bless farmers, without them we wouldn’t have food “
Of course what isn’t said and should be by farmers is “God bless all the city people that buy our products so we can make a living”.
But that isn’t said. And we see it with firefighters, police and others.
The virtue signaling is done all over.
Section off and divide us up, and elevate certain people over others.
It wasn’t that way 50 years ago
“It wasn’t that way 50 years ago”
Exactly right. I look back so fondly to those days when the leftists hadn’t done this to us. There were tensions, but we largely all got along. Then the Democrats and liberals started “identity politics” and split us a thousand different ways.
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