Survey: 60% of Millennials Don't Believe in Right and Wrong

[WallyMorris]

I had already planned on doing that, but he attends another church, and she lives 45 minutes away. They came only because it was Mother’s Day, and he came for his mother. However, even if both of them have seen & heard what should not have been seen & heard (and some of your argument assumes they may have),they still came to church and past experience does not justify or excuse coming to church and not bringing a Bible, not singing at all, etc. Coming to church and then refusing to participate at all is illogical, but then, sin is usually not logical or rational.

Were they using their phone app to read the Bible? 66% of millennials get their Bible reading on the internet, 51% on an app/e-reader as opposed to reading the Bible in book form. Even though I am 48 years of age, I follow the preaching of the Word at my church on my iphone, mainly due to my failing eye-sight. Almost all of the 20 somethings that attend our church (about 2/3rds of the church) follow along with their phones and don’t bring a Bible to church.

about them not bringing a Bible to church and be more concerned about their not singing.

I remember a dear friend staying planted in his seat when we were in college (just a couple of years back), and when I asked him about it, he simply noted that he had some things to deal with, and he’d have felt like a hypocrite standing up and singing. We need to be careful about judging by appearances that way. I’ve done a bit of song-leading in my day, and quite frankly, there are generally a LOT of people not singing. If you’ve only got one couple in that category, and that only on Mother’s Day, count your blessings.

Same thing as what Joel says as well about having one’s Bible; we need to remember that not only do people have other ways of having Scripture at their fingertips, but many churches are also putting the verses up on screen and the like. It’s also worth noting (hopefully not the case at Charity Baptist) that a lot of pastors use their passage more or less as a springboard to jump into what they really wanted to talk about—why bother carrying a Bible in that case, really?

Finally, I think we have to remember that we’ve only had mass produced Bibles that could easily be taken to church for about a century—so while it’s nice and a great convenience to be able to double check what the pastor is saying (or quite frankly read elsewhere if he’s just wasting time), I can’t get that worked up about it as if it were a sin not to bring one’s Bible to church. 19 centuries of Christians simply didn’t have that opportunity.

I can’t get that worked up about it as if it were a sin not to bring one’s Bible to church. 19 centuries of Christians simply didn’t have that opportunity.

That, Bert, is a great point.

This thread reminds me of a podcast I listened to last week - “The Massive Problem in the Church Few People Are Talking About” or “Jesus lives in your bones, but does He live in your heart?”. It’s all about people who are active, who are well trained, who attend church and are involved, but they have no idea what or how a living relationship with Jesus works and don’t have one themselves.

I think that’s a huge problem that we’ve largely missed out on and need to look at.