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A Millennial’s Perspective: Why I Don’t want to go to Church? THE PEOPLE.

August 5, 2018

Categorically these people are the exact reason why most don’t go to church.

awkward church greeting huggingSomething I have been struggling with: Are you frustrated with the self-centeredness of supposedly “mature” Christians?
You can’t have a decent conversation with them without them bringing up their irrelevant vacation to Mexico?

Categorically these people are the exact reason why most don’t go to church. I myself am tempted, nearly weekly, to spare myself the awkwardness of church and just sleep in.

I could offer a pretty strong theological argument for ditching church and instead going on a Sunday morning jog while listening to a sermon. I mean Jesus went off alone to grow with his relationship with God… why can’t I do that on Sundays? Right?

But here’s what keeps me coming back to Jesus AND his broken church who he relies on to do his work on earth: The realization that in the same way I “deal with selfish people“ is EXACTLY what Jesus does for me. 

forgive others as jesus forgives you

See if he is patient enough to endure my frequent “all about me“ attitude, then I can deal with other frustrating people. And really these people don’t need to get their act together, because all they need is Jesus.

And that’s all I should expect from them.

Because that’s all that matters.

It’s really quite simple: the same grace and forgiveness he has for me is channeled out of me to other people.

If I’m not channeling that same forgiveness, that is the indicator I have not personally accepted (nor am I channeling) God’s forgiveness in the first place. (see Matt 18:21-35)

Bottomline: if I am avoiding church because Christians annoy me, that’s the indicator I don’t understand God’s grace in my own life.

Who Beau is

  • Adventure Filmmaker.
  • Founder & President of Knok Studio (non-profit, 501(c)3).
  • Founder & Producer of Chevassus Studios & viral YouTube channel non-profit.
  • Co-founder & Teacher Kalos Agon, LLC.
  • Elder at Wabash Church.

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