Lets get down to basics, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH?
Your comments could be a strategy for any social club I belong to. Ok, let me say it, most churches are club houses.
Tale a look are the 7 churches in revelation. Any judging criteria on growth of church and youth attendance? Most of it is get back to your first love and get rid of wrong doctrine.
We are talking about why youth leave the churches they grew up in. I just gave you very good reasons. The message should not ever change. But I have yet to see the group of teens that prefer organ or piano and hymns to contemporary worship music.
Churches that embrace the new music and aim a large portion of their resources and time at youth will prosper with the youth. They will overflow.
Churches that cling to old hymnals as if they were almost as important as a Bible, keep banging away on that out-of-tune piano every Sunday and have what few little kids they have in a room watching veggie-tales while the few teens they have are in the sanctuary with Gramma being bored to tears will die when Gramma dies. Because once Gramma dies and the kids are of age, why would they go to a place that talked down to them and bored them to death every Sunday for years?