It's the Generation, Doofus

[Jay]

Calls from my Redheaded college student daughter are always a joy but todays was particularly interesting. She has an instructor who is, "older than you, dad..." teaching a computer basics class. The guy starts off with, "Move your mouse to the lower left hand corner and click the 'Start' button." The instructor is from the Boom generation where one did not shred, mutilate, or fold the end result. For them, automation is hard to trust though is a necessary piece of equipment. My daughter is one of those cheerful Millinneals who is way beyond the Start button. For her and most other Millinneals, the computer is a dynamic leap into relationship and being able to juggle four separate conversations at once. Somewhere in between is the Gen-X engineer who probably wrote the code and engineered the desktop. All this said, Millineals and Boomers share a fascinating distinction... They are trend setters for pop culture, education, and politics. With this in mind, how might they also be trend setting how the Gospel is proclaimed in the present? The content is 2000 yrs old but is still alive, functional, and relevant. How do we take Paul's example of being "all things to all men that I might by all means save some" (I Cor 9: 22)?

[Scribe D'Nucov]

Jay, that's an excellent question. I'm actually writing on that topic right now.

My sense of things is that we can miss the simple point of Christ's message by making the Gospel complex and religious.

The Millenials crowd don't have any patience for that. It has to be "real".

So, if we want to make disciples among them, we have to learn to be real, the way Jesus taught.

- Scribe