How Can We Reach Skeptical Millennials?
Earlier this year, I told you about some of the challenges in reaching Millennials for Christ, that is, young adults aged roughly 18 to 33. While 55 percent of Baby Boomers say they're religious, only 36 percent of Millennials do. "Today," University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox notes, "fully 29 percent of Millennials consider themselves religiously unaffiliated, a record postwar high. They are also much less likely to describe themselves as 'religious' compared with earlier generations of Americans."
Well, how is this rising generation connecting to the Bible? In a word, poorly. According to a new study by the Barna Group, "Non-Christian Millennials hold ambivalent and sometimes extremely negative views about the Bible."
How negative? The first thing to know is that a full 62 percent of non-Christian Millennials have never even read the Bible. Friends, that's the kind of world in which we live—one with tremendous ignorance of God's Word. It's no wonder that the nation has gone so far downhill, so fast, because we can't expect people to live like Christians if they aren't Christians, and especially if they don't even have a passing acquaintance with the Scriptures.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/millennials-and-the-bible-live-out-the-faith-so-they-can-relate-129887/
