Contemporary worship is not a siren call for the youth. That idea is emotionally manipulative at best and openly condescending at worst. The ways in which many younger people find church to be inaccessible run much deeper than the aesthetics of particular liturgies. This can’t be solved just by changing a tune. The true distance much deeper, and in part, this is because millennials come from a unique experience: We are struggling, feel increasingly isolated, and our needs are no longer being met within the traditional institution.
This message is an excerpt of “Beyond Sunday” by Abby Accettura, in the May 2017 issue of Gather magazine.
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