Mandy sat across from me with tears sliding down her cheeks. “I feel like Aaron and I are the only ones in our friend group who are investing in church,” she said. Mandy and Aaron have been married for a few years. They got involved in a church when they were in college and they stayed invested. She made an appointment to talk with me about friends who had drifted from the church. And not because they stopped believing. Because they are disillusioned.
In this season of my life, the Lord has granted me a front row seat to what he’s up to in the lives of the “rising generations.” I’d like to serve as an ambassador between the rising generations and our church. Young adults love Jesus. They’re great with Jesus, but they’re much more skeptical when it comes to the church. Their concerns can be roughly gathered into three categories: money, sex and power. These are old gods – Mammon, Eros, Mars. And our young adults are warning us that these old gods are seducing the church in ways that they find deeply troubling. Let’s look in particular at money.
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