Why Are We Losing Young People?

[Cindy]

It is not limited to the UPC or any other Pentecostal organization.

[Wang Mo Shi]

Originally Posted by Cindy

It is not limited to the UPC or any other Pentecostal organization.

God is moving in a HUGE way amoung young people, it just may not be in the small box that you have designed for him?

[PastorTLArt]

Originally Posted by Evenuntodeath

I'll just say this. The upc and other holiness churches are losing young people because they fail to follow the most basic commandments given to us by god, and have replaced them with their man made standards.
What are the two basic commandments? Love the lord jesus christ with all your heart, and love thy neighbor as thyself. And what do we have? We have people who worry about looking holy but cant even show basic human decency. Everyone in the church has to put up with your bad attitude. You speak in tongues but you cant even speak to the person next to you. You havent talked to brother or sister so and so in 3 years because they said something you didnt like. You hold grudges. You have never welcomed any new person coming in the chuch. Yet you worry about if your skirt is long enough?! Loooool.

And this is the inheritance we have given young people. We have a generation of young people who worry about looking good for church, but dont even obey gods basic commandments. Some young people have seen the writing on the wall, and have left the church.

Another thing: if the upc and other churches dont stop their misogynistic views towards women, they will start to loose more young females. Many young women are going to college, holding good paying jobs, yet the church wants to continue to force them into roles of women from the 1950's. The general mistrust/dislike towards women as if every women who wants to look beautiful is somehow on a covert mission to seduce men of god has to stop.

I agree with you 100%!!