Link works just fine for me, and I don't have an account...


anyhow, the article is full of alarmist, misguided, poorly processed BS.

warning: the following is raw at best, and may insult some people. Deal. I will make some blanket statements. If they don't apply to you, good. If they do, consider why.

1) The phraseology "bible-believing" tends to be only applied to evangelicals, and connotes that one believes in the traditional fundamentalist interpretation as well as the revelation of the Bible itself.
2) Because of this, one should be expect that a youth culture seeking after authenticity would end up leaving the infantile, outdated system of evangelicalism for a more mature set of beliefs. One could be thankful for it even, if we could show that they were still Christian after leaving the fundies.
3) Fear = Death.... message? If you are afraid, you will die, likely from what you fear, because you caused it to happen, likely because you were afraid at all.
4) Evangelicalism is flawed in that it is a great revolving door to Christ: people come in, people come out. As a branch of a more stable church body, this is fine. In such a body, as a person matures in Christ, they find deeper and more meaningful paths to follow in the community of the Body. But what happens to a person as they mature out of the fanatic, emotional birth-pangs of becoming a new Christian, but there is no support for someone whose body begins to bore with screaming and crying to pedantic 'worship' songs? When they look for the deeper truths, for deeper answers than a few minutes of "Our God Is An Awesome God" can give? Within the structure they've been shown, there is nothing.. and they feel that there is then nothing more.. they've got saved and that's all she wrote. They are not shown how to discern their place in the Communion, they are not taught how to learn from the Bible, or even that they can learn anything beyond what is taught in Sunday School. Anyone worth talking to, excepting those called to evangelical ministry, of which I am not discounting at all, will leave feeling lost, confused, and hurt. They will often feel that they were wrong to begin with, because that hurts less than that they were let down by God's people whom they were told were so good. And so they turn their backs on Christ too. A few of the stronger ones will seek out a more mature denomination, a few will find a more mature version of evangelical, but it is the deep failure of the Evangelical denominations of whom I speak that they are incapable of helping anyone beyond a few short years, and turn as many people away from Life as toward it.

Exasperated, but with Love in Christ,