One of the things that still knocks around popular American Christian culture are variations on stuff like \u201cThere\u2019s a big difference between being a CHURCHIAN versus being a CHRISTIAN\u201d or \u201cJust going to Church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.\u201d<\/p>\n
See, here\u2019s the thing: There was a time when going to Church was the conventional thing to do in order to establish your bona fides as a solid citizen. Bill Clinton hauling around his Big Ol\u2019 Bible in order to demonstrate True Contrition and similar demonstrations of piety, as well as Southern Gothic displays of Horndog on Saturday night\/Church-going on Sunday are something you run into with my generation of aging Boomers.<\/p>\n
But with Millennials, the reality is that if a person is still in Church by the age of 30 it *is* proof they really believe in Christ, because Millennials don\u2019t go to Church if they don\u2019t believe. There is no social benefit of conventionality for Millennials who go to Church. Indeed, there is often a real cost. So don\u2019t lecture Millennials on their need to abandon \u201creligion\u201d in favor of True Discipleship to Jesus. If they are in Church, the reason they are there is because they are trying to obey Christ, often against daunting odds and at considerable cost to themselves in terms of rejection by peers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the things that still knocks around popular American Christian culture are variations on stuff like \u201cThere\u2019s a big difference between being a CHURCHIAN versus being a CHRISTIAN\u201d or \u201cJust going to Church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.\u201d See, here\u2019s the thing: There was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-99993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intentional-discipleship"],"yoast_head":"\n