The Apostle Paul has set the stage: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.” In 2015, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey that revealed that only 27% of American millennials (born 1981-1996) attend church on a weekly basis. Barna Research also studied the thoughts of millennials regarding the importance of church which found that the “general feeling” is not only that church is unnecessary, but potentially harmful, due to perceptions of “moral failures in church leadership,” and that Christians are “judgmental,” “hypocritical,” “anti-homosexual,” and “insensitive to others.” An increasing lack of religious enthusiasm has been an undeniable trend for the United States in the 21st century and American churches have long been pondering how to counteract this generational disposition.
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