1. De-feminize Church
2. Talk about things that are NOT okay. Cuz some areN’T
skipping church/synagogue for Pizza, I can understand!
but skipping church to do physical exercises? My Lord but those sermons must be just AWFUL!
They WERE NOT raised to think for themselves. They were TOLD what think PERIOD. What they were told will eventually fail them. Their story ain’t over yet...
There! Fixed it.
Bring back the fire & brimstone & those wonderful nuns in traditional habits!
My Antionchian Orhtodox parish has received two large Millenial families (4 children each!)in the past year with another (3 children) soon to follow.
And we are as traditional as it gets:
All male clergy. Liturgy that is chanted by clergy in vestments with incense. No pandering to the LGBT or feminazi agenda. Rigorous fasting for about 1/3 the days of the year.
And the folks are coming in droves. We may soon need a larger building....again.
>>This is a disturbing trend. How do we go about reversing it?
Nothing new here. The distractions are different, but this has been a problem since the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. Man learned to “rationally” decide that God was disinterested, then unnecessary, then a psychological construct, and finally a work of fiction.
As another poster pointed out: De-feminize the church! That means throwing out weak Arminian theology of a God that is pining away waiting for us to call him. God is a creator, a royal builder, and can speak a universe into and out of creation. Christians are his heirs. We need theology that stands on that basic truth.
There can be a Great Awakening if God so chooses. He can reverse this trend as he did in 1740. He did it then to awaken the spirit of freedom and the knowledge that there is no such thing as earthly nobility. He gave the people in a certain place and at a certain time the confidence, as heirs to the kingdom of God, that we can throw off our Kings and Queens and rule ourselves on this earth.
But, as scripture tells us, there will be a falling away in the end times. The next Great Awakening may not come until Jesus himself brings it with him.
Until then, the elect must remain ever faithful. Jonathan Edwards put it very well in his first two Resolutions:
Resolution 1: I will live my life for God.
Resolution 2: If no one else does, I still will.
But there is a move of God across America and around the world. It is called the Grace Revolution. It is what Jude described would happen in the last days which we are in.
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints
Jude 3.
Grace, truth, no condemnation, and justification from all things comes by Jesus Christ. The world needs to hear that message - a message of love and grace because of Jesus' perfect sacrifice and shedding of his blood on the cross. The world is sick of the mixture of grace with religious laws and condemnation.
Millennials are the dumbest generation EVER. I have a few in my family and they are just pathetic. The ones I have to work with are worse. Lazy, unmotivated and always playing the victim
Meanwhile, the deep state pulls the wool over their eyes
Good luck with jobs, demographics, free speech and freedoms.....idiots
Begin by looking at the parts of the brain engaged by the three activities pursued. Then ask if that’s a reaction to a social media culture which values external validation.
The church, the university and the military have been debased, by the leadership of those institutions.
What is striking, and not discussed, is how socially conservative these kids are compared to their parents. Drugs, sex, booze, abortion. All lower.
I don’t think the kids are the problem. If they’re exercising despite physical ed being cut in school, if they have found the last refuge of masculinity in the culture— video games, if they’re attracted to a food that has at least three and maybe four of the major food groups, good for them.
Really - do YOU want your kids, friends or parents getting ‘spiritual’ advice from the Socialist Pope - the ‘saint’ of Venezuela? Your family is better off playing video games.
Same with most of the MSC (Main-Stream Churches) - they teach ‘accept everything’ and ‘forgive’ any and all monsters even before repentance or even giving a damn.
Keep the kids home...
Who’s doing the push ups? Sure as hell ain’t them.
Because anything regarding God means intellectual slavery.
I’ve read statistics that said traditionally these age brackets have never been the heavy church going type. Religious attendance goes up when young people get married.
First off, going to church is not what saves your soul.
Second, kids have always been rebellious. It’s the so-called “organized” Christian denominations that have deteriorated more than kids in recent times.
As a onetime Catholic, I’d say half the time the current pope is on dope. And most the times I see Catholic-oriented threads on FR, the topic is so full of legalisms as to make me think they are arguing over which is better, the Sad-you-sees or the Unfair-isees.
Several other denoms apparently don’t think sin is sin, so why go to church to learn what is sin? Or the equally ridiculous notion that once saved your future sins are already forgiven.
In general, Christian churches in America don’t concentrate on what was meant to be their primary function anyway: teaching. At the rate they cover text in the bible, if at all, your butt would have to be in that pew until your bones turn back to dust in order to hear the whole of His word.
Get the book. Find a decent preacher or two on TV or the internet who help you understand what you are reading. Also, if you can find one, join a decent church for the edification and community aspects.
And remember Christ’s most common criticism:
“Have you not read?”
You can try but it isn’t against the law not to go Church or worship any God.
No grasp of eternal life? I wonder how they will fare at the moment of their death -—— not well in my estimation.
Get rid of the pedophile priests, the homosexual “marriages”, the begging for more and more money to support the mega million dollar facilities, the...I could go on and on, but church isn’t church anymore.
I lived next to four churches on the corner, yes four, and the hypocrites would cut you off in traffic then flip you off on the away in. Wife called it hypocrite hour.