"Don't look back, you're not going that way." ~ unknown
Each of us has something in our past that has broken us a part, piece by piece. And it is hard not to look back on that with hatred, frustration, and sadness. But that is in the past and you're not going that way. Healing begins when we start to look forward, when we grow and learn from the pain.
As a church, we do so well at repeating events and models that were created centuries ago because they are familiar and at that time, they worked well. Church looks back at the past whether there is pain or not and we keep looking back in hopes that it will mend our present and future aches. Don't look back, we're not going that way. Society and culture have changed so whPermalink
y isn't the church. The only way we will be able to grow from our past is to look forward because that's the way we're going. You have to meet people where they are at instead of hoping they'll find their way to the church.
So how do we do that for millennials? How has church changed?
Theology pubs are a great example of how church has changed. Church, faith exploration and growth happens in a bar with a handful of other people struggling and discussing the same things you are thinking about.
For me, music reaches me and helps me feel and worship God. For me, contemporary Christian music, loud, proud, and praise-worthy.
But church can have a lot of different ways of looking in today's culture, especially with younger generations. Be creative and think outside the box, get young adults truly interested, invested, leaders of what their church looks like, not what it's looked like for the past hundred years.
"Don't look back, you're not going that way."
Each of us has something in our past that has broken us a part, piece by piece. And it is hard not to look back on that with hatred, frustration, and sadness. But that is in the past and you're not going that way. Healing begins when we start to look forward, when we grow and learn from the pain.
As a church, we do so well at repeating events and models that were created centuries ago because they are familiar and at that time, they worked well. Church looks back at the past whether there is pain or not and we keep looking back in hopes that it will mend our present and future aches. Don't look back, we're not going that way. Society and culture have changed so whPermalink
y isn't the church. The only way we will be able to grow from our past is to look forward because that's the way we're going. You have to meet people where they are at instead of hoping they'll find their way to the church.
So how do we do that for millennials? How has church changed?
Theology pubs are a great example of how church has changed. Church, faith exploration and growth happens in a bar with a handful of other people struggling and discussing the same things you are thinking about.
For me, music reaches me and helps me feel and worship God. For me, contemporary Christian music, loud, proud, and praise-worthy.
But church can have a lot of different ways of looking in today's culture, especially with younger generations. Be creative and think outside the box, get young adults truly interested, invested, leaders of what their church looks like, not what it's looked like for the past hundred years.
"Don't look back, you're not going that way."
