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[LifeHiscost]

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christian-chiakulas/churches-millennials-if-they-just-did-this_b_8215846.html

Millennials are not interested in a celestial Jesus with a permanent smile and open arms, unconcerned with the goings-on of planet Earth. We've heard about that Jesus our entire lives, and we're not buying it.

Do you know what we would buy? Jesus the man, Jesus the prophet, the Jesus that fashioned a whip of cords and overturned the tables of the money changers for making God's house a den of robbers. The Jesus that challenged the establishment and paid the ultimate price. The Jesus that took up the cross of the poor, the weak, and the marginalized in the name of God.

I spent an hour and a half at church one week and the name "Jesus" was not mentioned a single time. That is what ultimately made me decide to give up.

I'm all for love and a personal relationship with God, but I choose to follow the man who teaches that political action is worship, that social justice is love.

What I and people my age are looking for is a church that preaches not just transcendental love, but that prophetic fire that makes Jesus so appealing.

A church that stressed this aspect of the faith would be dangerous, to be sure. It would be time-consuming and divisive. It might not even work as a long-lasting denomination. But the inconvenient truth is that if you really want millennials back in the pews, you've got to light the church on fire.  

That underline is mine and is the part I earnestly disagree with,  as long as the onus is placed on "me"!

Dependence on what Jesus will accomplish through and in us, when and if we submit to His will and interpretation as the Way, is without exception. Other than that it was overall a fairly good assessment, IMHO.

⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do

nothing.....John 15

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.....James 4
 

32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me....John 12
 

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me......Philippians 4
 

9  The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.....Psalm 25
 

13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.....John 16
 

22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.....Matthew 21
 

24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full....John 16

 

God is Love!  Jesus saves! 

 

 

 

[Wingnut]

Jesus changed the world without confronting the Roman establishment.

John the baptist lost his head because he told Herod that taking Philip, his brother's wife, was sinful.

Christ left John in prison because maybe John meddled where he should have stuck to religious matters, rather than pointing out the ruler's sin (which is close to inciting a rebellion) and the Romans were very sensitive to mutiny or personal criticism.

Millennial like to hang out with other millennial, rather than old feebs.  One needs to set aside times and activities which appeal to youngsters, run by youngsters.  And they like volunteer work like building houses for the poor, cleaning up after disasters, just so long as they can do it together.