Comments on: What the Needs of Young Adults Will Mean For Your Church http://bedeviant.com/needs-young-adults-church Faith & Culture Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:29:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Justin Wise http://bedeviant.com/needs-young-adults-church/comment-page-1#comment-4729 Justin Wise Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:59:50 +0000 http://www.bedeviant.com/?p=1915#comment-4729 Thanks Kevin!<br><br>What registered most with you? Thanks Kevin!

What registered most with you?

]]> By: Kevin Bobrow http://bedeviant.com/needs-young-adults-church/comment-page-1#comment-4728 Kevin Bobrow Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:10:06 +0000 http://www.bedeviant.com/?p=1915#comment-4728 Excellent thoughts, Justin. Very succinct and very true. Good work... Excellent thoughts, Justin. Very succinct and very true. Good work…

]]> By: Jesse http://bedeviant.com/needs-young-adults-church/comment-page-1#comment-4309 Jesse Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:59:58 +0000 http://www.bedeviant.com/?p=1915#comment-4309 "Community. A term that is at once both tangible yet impossibly ambiguous." <br><br>What I've found in my not-a-church community in the past two years is that I want to do life with people, not do church / religion. I see them more than once or twice a week. We are in each other's houses, cars and business. The reason it is hard for churches to define and develop community is because it cannot be found in the church (building), only outside of it. “Community. A term that is at once both tangible yet impossibly ambiguous.”

What I've found in my not-a-church community in the past two years is that I want to do life with people, not do church / religion. I see them more than once or twice a week. We are in each other's houses, cars and business. The reason it is hard for churches to define and develop community is because it cannot be found in the church (building), only outside of it.

]]> By: jojo3365 http://bedeviant.com/needs-young-adults-church/comment-page-1#comment-4310 jojo3365 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:30:26 +0000 http://www.bedeviant.com/?p=1915#comment-4310 I think this is GREAT information!! Totally in line with the times, I feel the movement here is Desmo with the shared space businesses continuing to sprout up and grow... this is a really good thing if our intentions stay pure in the fact that being in community and having relationships with others is how human beings were made and creates grounds for exponential growth. Together we are BETTER! <br><br>As far as the church is concerned - I think the more we realize we are the church ALL THE TIME and not just when we walk through a certain pair of doors the stronger we will be as a community. We as human beings are to be in relation with each other, created order and the ultimate creator - Those last words are borrowed from a sermon from Pastor Paul Stewart of the Gateway Church. It's right on in my humble opinion! Thanks doing the research and for sharing this Justin!! You are a good leader! I think this is GREAT information!! Totally in line with the times, I feel the movement here is Desmo with the shared space businesses continuing to sprout up and grow… this is a really good thing if our intentions stay pure in the fact that being in community and having relationships with others is how human beings were made and creates grounds for exponential growth. Together we are BETTER!

As far as the church is concerned – I think the more we realize we are the church ALL THE TIME and not just when we walk through a certain pair of doors the stronger we will be as a community. We as human beings are to be in relation with each other, created order and the ultimate creator – Those last words are borrowed from a sermon from Pastor Paul Stewart of the Gateway Church. It's right on in my humble opinion! Thanks doing the research and for sharing this Justin!! You are a good leader!

]]> By: New Lutheran http://bedeviant.com/needs-young-adults-church/comment-page-1#comment-4311 New Lutheran Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:10:50 +0000 http://www.bedeviant.com/?p=1915#comment-4311 You use the word "occurring" with the phrase "right now" and you're exactly right. All of this is already happening and "right now" is when churches have the opportunity to decide whether to get on board or not.<br><br>I love that you came to the conclusion that "community" is the primary need. Younger generations have grown up with unprecedented connectivity to the world around them. They crave it. They want to be a part of the conversation.<br><br>Churches can embrace it or reject it, but they can't ignore it. You use the word “occurring” with the phrase “right now” and you're exactly right. All of this is already happening and “right now” is when churches have the opportunity to decide whether to get on board or not.

I love that you came to the conclusion that “community” is the primary need. Younger generations have grown up with unprecedented connectivity to the world around them. They crave it. They want to be a part of the conversation.

Churches can embrace it or reject it, but they can't ignore it.

]]> By: Jesse http://bedeviant.com/needs-young-adults-church/comment-page-1#comment-2464 Jesse Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:59:58 +0000 http://www.bedeviant.com/?p=1915#comment-2464 "Community. A term that is at once both tangible yet impossibly ambiguous." <br><br>What I've found in my not-a-church community in the past two years is that I want to do life with people, not do church / religion. I see them more than once or twice a week. We are in each other's houses, cars and business. The reason it is hard for churches to define and develop community is because it cannot be found in the church (building), only outside of it. “Community. A term that is at once both tangible yet impossibly ambiguous.”

What I've found in my not-a-church community in the past two years is that I want to do life with people, not do church / religion. I see them more than once or twice a week. We are in each other's houses, cars and business. The reason it is hard for churches to define and develop community is because it cannot be found in the church (building), only outside of it.

]]> By: jojo3365 http://bedeviant.com/needs-young-adults-church/comment-page-1#comment-2462 jojo3365 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:30:26 +0000 http://www.bedeviant.com/?p=1915#comment-2462 I think this is GREAT information!! Totally in line with the times, I feel the movement here is Desmo with the shared space businesses continuing to sprout up and grow... this is a really good thing if our intentions stay pure in the fact that being in community and having relationships with others is how human beings were made and creates grounds for exponential growth. Together we are BETTER! <br><br>As far as the church is concerned - I think the more we realize we are the church ALL THE TIME and not just when we walk through a certain pair of doors the stronger we will be as a community. We as human beings are to be in relation with each other, created order and the ultimate creator - Those last words are borrowed from a sermon from Pastor Paul Stewart of the Gateway Church. It's right on in my humble opinion! Thanks doing the research and for sharing this Justin!! You are a good leader! I think this is GREAT information!! Totally in line with the times, I feel the movement here is Desmo with the shared space businesses continuing to sprout up and grow… this is a really good thing if our intentions stay pure in the fact that being in community and having relationships with others is how human beings were made and creates grounds for exponential growth. Together we are BETTER!

As far as the church is concerned – I think the more we realize we are the church ALL THE TIME and not just when we walk through a certain pair of doors the stronger we will be as a community. We as human beings are to be in relation with each other, created order and the ultimate creator – Those last words are borrowed from a sermon from Pastor Paul Stewart of the Gateway Church. It's right on in my humble opinion! Thanks doing the research and for sharing this Justin!! You are a good leader!

]]> By: New Lutheran http://bedeviant.com/needs-young-adults-church/comment-page-1#comment-2461 New Lutheran Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:10:50 +0000 http://www.bedeviant.com/?p=1915#comment-2461 You use the word "occurring" with the phrase "right now" and you're exactly right. All of this is already happening and "right now" is when churches have the opportunity to decide whether to get on board or not.<br><br>I love that you came to the conclusion that "community" is the primary need. Younger generations have grown up with unprecedented connectivity to the world around them. They crave it. They want to be a part of the conversation.<br><br>Churches can embrace it or reject it, but they can't ignore it. You use the word “occurring” with the phrase “right now” and you're exactly right. All of this is already happening and “right now” is when churches have the opportunity to decide whether to get on board or not.

I love that you came to the conclusion that “community” is the primary need. Younger generations have grown up with unprecedented connectivity to the world around them. They crave it. They want to be a part of the conversation.

Churches can embrace it or reject it, but they can't ignore it.

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