If This Is True...

I'm reading this book titled "Emergent Worship" by Dan Kimball. He's got some thoughts I'd like to share with you and get some input. A quote, from early in the book:

"More and more emerging generations who were raised in the church are saying that there must be something more to 'church' than what they have experienced. The system we use to teach them how to be disciples of Jesus are not connecting with them like they did for generations past. Emerging generations say it just doesn't 'feel right' or 'fit right' anymore. They want to be disicples of Jesus, but how we approach disciple-making needs to shift right alongside their shifting values.

Emerging generations wonder if what they have been taught about 'community'--and what they've seen promoted in their churches--is really biblical community at all...They wonder why preaching has turned the beautiful and mysterious story of God and man into self-help guru like Tony Robbins-like teaching with some Bible verses added. They wonder why their hunger to discover and wrestle with the deeper truths of Scripture is fed with neatly packaged versions of how-to messages and pat Bible answers.

They are getting restless."

Seems to me that if the author's premise is true, then church leadership is in for a rude awakening. So, I'm asking you for some response on this. Send me an e-mail if you have to (brent@crossroadsbible.org). Comment anonymously, or as a known quantity, if you want. Link me to your blog thoughts on this quote. Whatever. I'm looking for feedback, even if it's a rude awakening.

(*closes eyes, clenches fists, and slowly walks away*)