Jack, well said, showing different approaches to an ongoing search.. One specifically hits home.' Yet Seacoast attracts people, because we are serious about the Gospel, and about the Bible. We believe Christianity has something to say to our world, that it can engage with the chaos and hard questions in a real and meaningful way."
Christianity is new to many young people. They didn’t grow up with it. As you mention, to “rebel” is now to move toward faith, not away from it. To the extent they find believers and their teaching to be authentic, they will be attracted to it. I was at an Asian American church in LA recently. Young people are coming to Christ in droves there.
I also wonder whether their unfamiliarity with Christianity makes it feel like a revelation, precisely because the western worldview is built on it, though we’ve forgotten. So perhaps one thing that happens is the way of seeing the world they grew up with suddenly makes sense, because they’ve found the key to understanding it
Jack, well said, showing different approaches to an ongoing search.. One specifically hits home.' Yet Seacoast attracts people, because we are serious about the Gospel, and about the Bible. We believe Christianity has something to say to our world, that it can engage with the chaos and hard questions in a real and meaningful way."
Christianity is new to many young people. They didn’t grow up with it. As you mention, to “rebel” is now to move toward faith, not away from it. To the extent they find believers and their teaching to be authentic, they will be attracted to it. I was at an Asian American church in LA recently. Young people are coming to Christ in droves there.
I also wonder whether their unfamiliarity with Christianity makes it feel like a revelation, precisely because the western worldview is built on it, though we’ve forgotten. So perhaps one thing that happens is the way of seeing the world they grew up with suddenly makes sense, because they’ve found the key to understanding it