Remember that definition of insanity? For the Colson Center for Christian
Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point.
It may not have been said by Albert Einstein, but it’s
true. “The definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results.”
I think about this every time I read another article about “why young
people are leaving the Church.” So many of these articles are written by
progressives or ex-evangelicals proclaiming that churches must adopt
liberal theology, LGBT ideology, and focus on social justice rather than sin
and salvation if they hope to survive.
But churches and denominations have already tried this for years, and the
ones who have are overwhelmingly old, white, and dying. The churches losing
members at a dizzying rate still are the ones that have ordained gay clergy and
are preaching a social gospel. On the other hand, their conservative
counterparts are growing still.
Look, young people don’t need another institution to make them feel good.
They need one that will tell them the truth about sin, and the Savior Who calls
them to be transformed in the world, not conformed to
it.
