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http://uywi.org/event/reload-lab-phoenix-2012/ Why is church not working for the 19-35 year old? Why are high school students raised in the church increasingly dropping out now as well? What can be...
View ArticleHow we worship…and does it matter? (Pt. 1)
When the subject of worship “style” comes up, people generally start getting antsy. We stop listening and begin forming our objections. The young among us say, “I can worship any way I like.” The more...
View ArticleHow do millennials experience your church?
I asked Christopher to guest post after his comments on my “Kinnaman” post were so eerily similar to statements made by millennials in a recent Q & A hosted by one of the nations most effective...
View ArticleWafer Madness: 500 years of communion arguments made simple
What happens to the elements and the people who consume them? When we are talking about Communion, the answer is “it depends”. The options are listed below from “Why bother?” to “I’m seriously...
View ArticleMean people suck. But that’s not why millennials dropped the church.
An open letter to Lead Pastors. Do you hear that sucking sound? It’s the sound of young adults walking out the back door so fast that you can feel the breeze from the pulpit way down at the front of...
View ArticleHow we ruined worship: The church of me, for me, and about me.
Not all change is good. We humans are remarkably insular creatures. We tend to assume that our tiny slice of experience is the way things have always been and the way they should be. The here and now...
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