Comments on: What Exactly Are Students Walking Away From? http://www.aaronbuer.com/what-exactly-are-students-walking-away-from/ student ministry | leadership | parenting | life Fri, 20 May 2016 15:45:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.18 By: Aaron Buer http://www.aaronbuer.com/what-exactly-are-students-walking-away-from/#comment-184 Sun, 01 Dec 2013 11:40:00 +0000 http://www.aaronbuer.com/?p=1649#comment-184 Hey Peter,

Thanks for the comment. I understand where you’re coming from and you’re definitely not alone. I know a lot of people who are pursuing Jesus outside “institutional” church.

About your thoughts on “inequality, close-mindedness, hate, etc.” I like the way Andy Stanely puts it. “Anytime the church leverages anything other than love it loses it’s influence.”

]]> By: Peter http://www.aaronbuer.com/what-exactly-are-students-walking-away-from/#comment-183 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:55:00 +0000 http://www.aaronbuer.com/?p=1649#comment-183 I would contest that students are walking away from the community of the church because sometimes it can be the furthest thing from Christ-like. No matter how well one pastor might feel like he is doing, there are thousands of churches that aren’t doing love and community right by students (or anyone).

I don’t believe students are walking away from spirituality or even Christianity, necessarily, but rather the messages that many Christians advertise as universally correct and “the only way.”

I, for one, have “walked away” from the church building and a certain sector of the believing community because of the messages of inequality, close-mindedness, hate, unwillingness to allow individual views and discernment, and naiveté. None of this has to do with my relationship with Christ, nor about my distaste for Christianity, just a problem with the community that I’ve seen in the churches (buildings) I’ve been to.

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