American Adults Are Moving From Church to Church

Your article speaks volumes and to any mature Christian it should sound an alarm. We who profess Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior should not buy into the lies of a Pragmatic Philosophy which suggest that we forsake the inerrant word of God for that which is popular or "culturally relevant." When the Church begins to emulate the world and has become a market place for the consumer driven, seeker-friendly person we have given entrance to a skewed theology and therefore have corrupted the gospel message and the ministry. God's Word says,"...broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.(Matt.7:13,14)" Jesus is our only Salvation!

I know for a fact that many solid Christians are just plain fed up with the politics where it has no place being...in the Church. That is why you see so many smaller congregations popping up all over the place.

Well, separation/cleansing/division of the true church (not a certain religion but those who are true believers and not just attenders) is in the Bible as one of the many signs of the end times. Whether God cracks the sky within 5 years or 50 or 500 (which I doubt), it's all in His timing and this is just the start of this cleansing I believe is to come before He does. Other than this explaination, I think that so many churches are now gaining such unBibical tollerance to worldly issues to gain more members and not appear "judgemental" that we are straying from the truth of how to live laid out by Father God in the Holy Bible. I have moved churches because of unholy tollerance they have decided to chose. There have to be men of God and leaders of the church to stand steady on the real way God does want us to live and no matter how much the world calls us "narrow minded" we have to be able to love the sinner but still hate and say the sin is NOT ok. There are so many reasons, maybe just convience?

i have to say that i am near 30 in Chattanooga and i am bored to death. the kids here have no motivation to do anything but hang out.I grew up in Nashville and there are so many more activities for the youth. the adults seem to be more motivated as well. there is a huge drug problem here in Chattanooga as well as young parents.the parents have the same mentality as the youth. but i have also noticed that the hangouts on the outskirts and on brainerd road are rarely patrolled by police. these kids hangout, drink, and act crazy as well. we need more activites here for our citizens, not tourists. things like Dave and Busters,upward bound, water parks,church youth programs that actually interest the kids(not the adults)are a few things to help. also these things need to be income appropriate for people to afford. most of the violence comes from inner-city youth whose families are struggling to pay bills better yet afford a family trip to lake winnie or such.there was just a lot more for(i am putting it out there) black youth to stay involved in during my youth and i always state how grateful i am for not growing up here because my mentality would be the same as we see here so often today. i can go to a rock concert, or country music event etc. but that is not the mentality of the people here. that needs to change first. better jobs, more culture related events, and a different outlook on life is what it will take to turn this around. the friday night concerts in Miller Plaza should include artists that interest more cultures, the riverbend offers little entertainment for african americans other than the strut or gospel night. it seems as though segregation is still too strong in this city. the people with money of many races are fully entertained and the low income mostly black citizens are delegated entertainment every now and then. i hate to make this a race issue but if we want a change we need to deal with the facts.