from God and a missional mindset. This pastor was upset that young Christians weren’t committed to the institutional agenda of his church, and his conclusion was that they must not be committed to Christ. But what if it’s the opposite? What if the problem isn’t that young people aren’t committed to the church, but that the church isn’t committed to young people? I challenged him with a different approach: rather than trying to get young people to engage your institution’s programs and goals, what if you shifted the institution to equip young people to better accomplish what God is calling them
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