A lot of churches and Christians are realizing there is a generation that is walking out the back door of the church.

That's wonderful.

Not that it's happening, but that people are finally realizing it.

BUT, it doesn't end there. Only acknowledging a problem does not fix it. You have to actually act on it.

So the question really becomes, what are you going to do about the problem?

I don't have the answers. I really don't. I don't know of one model that will fix this. The faith at home movement has some good things to say about parents being involved with their kids and being spiritual mentors, but that doesn't say what to do about the current generation that has already left who have already turned mom and dad off. So there's some talk, but I don't see it as solving the problem completely.

My deal is, you can't do the same things in church and expect different results.

Are twentysomethings leaving your church? Then if you want to keep them, you can't do the exact same things you've been doing!

I read the following from Outreach magazine's September/October 2009 issue. This is a quote from Joel Hunter, a pastor from Florida:

"If younger and/or more secular people were going to be interested in church for the traditional reasons, they'd already be with us."

Wow.

Dude, doesn't that punch you right in the stomach?

The pastor is like, "Hello!? If it was working, they would still be here!!!"

You've got to do something different!

Like I said, I'm not claiming to know what the change is. I'm just saying that doing the same thing and expecting different results is stupidity.

@jacobriggs