A Failed Worldly ‘Strategy’: Shallow Entertainment and Comprimise Isn’t Keeping Young People in Churches

A Failed Worldly ‘Strategy’: Shallow Entertainment and Comprimise Isn’t Keeping Young People in Churches

(Harbinger’s Daily)—I’ve often shared the statistic that two-thirds of young people will leave the church by the time they reach college age—and very few return. I was reminded of this recently when I saw a post someone shared on social media that said: “Fact: 70–88% of youth born in evangelical homes leave the faith after one year in a secular college. Maybe. Just maybe. We start to focus on more doctrine, more ability to explain what and why t…

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A Failed Worldly ‘Strategy’: Shallow Entertainment And Compromise Isn’t Keeping Young People In Churches

When it’s “rock on!” with buildings populated with weak in the Word pastors and adults [here’s a helpful hint — it helps to read the Holy Bible, meditate upon it, know it, and live it out], how is it to be expected that young people are being fed spiritually as needed? When it is pretenders to the faith in homes, in what passes for families, what passes for being a disciple of the LORD Jesus Christ in these times, how is it to be expected that y…