"The Perils of 'Wanna Be Cool' Christianity"

Preparing for the upcoming issue of Faith & Fellowship Magazine, we are posting a wonderful article about how churches reach out to the younger generations. It's so easy to get stuck in in the idea that we need new programs are need to change the style of worship, but is that really what teens and young adults want in their spiritual life? What kind of culture are we as the Church trying to reach? Can we even answer that question confidently?

An article on the Wall Street Journal website confronts the popular idea that church needs to be "cool" and "relevant" in the eyes of our culture in order to "win back" the younger generation.* What the younger generation (and everyone for that matter) really needs is Jesus, the gospel, the truth.

"And the further irony," he adds, "is that the younger generations who are less impressed by whiz-bang technology, who often see through what is slick and glitzy, and who have been on the receiving end of enough marketing to nauseate them, are as likely to walk away from these oh-so-relevant churches as to walk into them."

If the evangelical Christian leadership thinks that "cool Christianity" is a sustainable path forward, they are severely mistaken. As a twentysomething, I can say with confidence that when it comes to church, we don't want cool as much as we want real.

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* There is a statistic in the beginning of the article that may be misleading. Please read the following article to get the an explanation of the numbers. Click here for > the article.