September 12 is the second annual national "'Back To Church Sunday", according to Outreach Magazine and LifeWay Research.
Rev. Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church, Seattle, says young men in their 20s, are scarce in church
(No, they can't tell you how many of the 1.2 million invites already in the mail from 3,000 churches are going to the Obama White House, although six nearby evangelical churches are participating in the event.)
But Rev. Mark Driscoll, the high profile pastor of Mars Hill, a megachurch in Seattle,
can tell you who you likely will not see in a church near you on Sept.
12 or any other Sunday -- dudes under 30, fellows Driscoll calls "boys who can shave."
Driscoll has an acerbic column for the Washington Post's On Faith in response to the thought-provoking Sunday New York Times Magazine piece on delayed adolescence
-- "adults" who have yet to reach the traditional markers of committed
relationships and careers. Driscoll takes on the spiritual
underdevelopment he sees in 20-somethings, "the least likely person to
see in church." He says,
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SOURCE: USA Today | Faith & Reason
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