Whats wrong with SBC Churches in my area?
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I have been to 6 SBC churches in my area (within 20 minutes) and 5/6 of them were depleted of many or any young people in their 20’s - 30’s. Many of them had large buildings but a small flock. The more contemporary rock based churches have flocks of young people, and the Fundamentalist churches also have many young people. It seems that people either want a contemporary seeker based church or they want a separatist based church. Whats your theory as t the decline of youth in the Southern Baptist Churches?
John
John
I’ve encountered 4 kinds of SBC churches in our area.
There’s the “Brethren we are treading where we’ve always trod” church where the congregation is older and comfortably predictable.
There’s the “Trying to be relevant” church with the bad praise band and clueless pastor who’ll try almost anything to generate enthusiasm but hasn’t done it..yet.
There’s the big multi-service church (Saturday night and 4 Sunday-including the Spanish service), where the people are generally bored in both the contemporary and traditional services and the 500+ members rarely interact with one another.
Then there’s Capitol Hill Baptist Church! :)
There’s the “Brethren we are treading where we’ve always trod” church where the congregation is older and comfortably predictable.
There’s the “Trying to be relevant” church with the bad praise band and clueless pastor who’ll try almost anything to generate enthusiasm but hasn’t done it..yet.
There’s the big multi-service church (Saturday night and 4 Sunday-including the Spanish service), where the people are generally bored in both the contemporary and traditional services and the 500+ members rarely interact with one another.
Then there’s Capitol Hill Baptist Church! :)
"Some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache." John Bunyan
Same as Ron said minus the CHBC.
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