Comments on: Sex, Abortion, and Your Local Church

By: Tyrone Biggums

Tyrone Biggums — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:56:26 +0000

Maybe a lot of parents that enroll their children in Sunday School don’t spend as much time instilling in those same children the values they want them to embrace, simply because they expect the school to do that for them.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:15:16 +0000

Joe, I think that your comments are valid as well. Good comments.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:37:42 +0000

I think it’s really an issue of teaching religion over relationship. In Matthew 23 Jesus makes it clear that he gets extremely upset when religion gets in the way of a relationship with God. For many churches, religion (dress, hair, music, building, program, curriculum, politics) is/was more important than relationship (love, honesty, mercy, justice, fellowship, growth, depth, time).

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:03:04 +0000

This is a tough question with no real “one” answer. In many cases, people have turned their backs on church because the church has let them. Many churches fail to educate, and establish the Bible as absolute truth, because they would rather continue to rely on comfortable cliche’s that no longer hold weight or merit with the most educated generation in history. The world has offered compelling cases for why things like premarital sex, abortion, gay marriage are acceptable, while punching holes in the authority of the word of God, and the church has not done a sufficient job of accepting the challenge or answering those questions intelligently. I don’t think this is a case of rebelling against “the faith of our parents” as much as it is a deeper issue.