God and the Transitioning Culture

Watching the various pollsters attempt to assess where culture is headed religiously is interesting. Is culture trending away from the biblical faith or toward it? The answer seems to be, yes. Confused? So are many pollsters and churches. Is Christianity losing ground? Are more moving to atheism or just becoming "nones", however that is defined? It doesn't seem to be any one thing. It seems culture is on a search for meaning.  Landon Schnabel suggests the answer is "America isn't becoming less spiritual. It's becoming differently spiritual": 

“What’s emerging from this sorting is a religiously polarized landscape. At one pole stand those committed to traditional religious authority and institutions. At the other are those embracing what sociologist Robert Bellah and colleagues called “the sacredness of the individual” — prioritizing personal authenticity over institutional directives.”

Many who are rejecting "institutional directives" essentially view doctrine, which is essentially a teaching, creed, or belief, as rigid and reject it. Others find the clarity helpful. What we have often seen, as we have spent time talking to many who have left the church, is that they cannot really articulate what it is they are rejecting. When we ask them to describe the god they are rejecting, we often have to point out that we, too, would reject that god. Others are rejecting the morals and ethics they find interfere with the way they desire to live and act. In their case they are looking to design a spirituality that conforms to and celebrates their desired behavior. Biblical Christianity would not accommodate them well. 

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