The Way I see it

From a Lifeway research study.

70% of young adults ages 23 to 30 stopped attending church regularly for a least a year between ages 18 and 22 for some of the following:

27%: "I simply wanted a break from church."
26%: "Church members seemed judgmental and hypocritical."
25%: "I moved to college and stopped attending church."
23%: "Work responsibilities prevented me from attending."
22%: "I moved too far away from the church to continue attending."
20%: "I didn't feel connected to the people in my church."
18%: "I disagreed with the church's stance on political or social issues."
17%: "I was only going to church to please others."

Now these numbers neither add up to 70 nor 100, so I'm guessing participants had the option to choose multiple options ...

"Some people also express an increased skepticism about why we even need some of the new technologies the church is using. Does displaying the words to a hymn on a centralized jumbo screen make the process of singing corporately that much easier or more convenient than reaching down to the pew and flipping to the correct page in the book? Sure, there are some benefits involved with trading hymnbooks for PowerPoint (for one, it's cheaper), but do the outweigh the costs (for example the loss of a collected anon of scared church music)? We are very quick to justify the change because of the pros, with scarcely little pause to consider the cons. Because its newness appeals to us, and because we live in a fast-paced, ever-changing world, we embrace the new technology with open arms, even when the old technology (hymnbooks) seemed to work fine for hundreds of years, We show words up on the screen because we can, not because the former alternatives were ineffective."

- Brett McCracken in Hipster Christianity (p.185)

and a little further on

" Now I am not saying that these sorts of things have no merit or do not contribute to the spiritual enrichment of Christians. Certainly the church should be engaging with the creative use of technology. To abandon technology altogether would be just as foolish as leveraging it in an extreme or reckless way. Technology itself doesn't make anything cooler, and increasingly the younger generations are looking for a tech-free space wherein they can quiet themselves and focus on the transcendent truths of the gospel, apart from the media and digital overload of the rest of their lives."

- Brett McCracken in Hipster Christianity (p.186)

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