Comments on: issue #1 - relevance http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2007/05/09/issue-1-relevance/ Stories, thoughts & insights on Jesus, college students, and the Bible; Los Angeles, immigration, politics, ethnicity and culture, and also about my daughter Isabel - from a spanglish gringo father living in, learning from, leading & loving life in East L.A. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:26:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Eddy E http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2007/05/09/issue-1-relevance/#comment-1549 Eddy E Thu, 10 May 2007 22:54:29 +0000 http://www.spanglishgringo.com/weblog/2007/05/09/issue-1-relevance/#comment-1549 Problem is less that kids have this view and more that church leaders have this view. Many churches (and i tend to see that among the arm enian churches is not knowing what to do with the youth who graduate high school and drop off in college. One pastor told me, "they'll eventually come back"... Actually, most will not come back (google barna with his research). Kids see God as a vegetable cause their churches and parents have treated God as a vegetable--good to eat but not necessarily that tasty. Problem is less that kids have this view and more that church leaders have this view. Many churches (and i tend to see that among the arm enian churches is not knowing what to do with the youth who graduate high school and drop off in college. One pastor told me, “they’ll eventually come back”…

Actually, most will not come back (google barna with his research). Kids see God as a vegetable cause their churches and parents have treated God as a vegetable–good to eat but not necessarily that tasty.

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