One of Christianity’s leading thinkers says millennials have abandoned the church and Christian sexual ethics.
Apologist Ravi Zacharias recently sat down with the Christian Post to discuss millennials and the church. Among his observations, gleaned after answering hundreds of questions posed to him by college students across the country, Zacharias believes Millennials have abandoned the church and Christian sexual ethics in order to find answers and fulfillment.
Zacharias said the topic of sexuality comes up in practically every speech or talk regardless of how unrelated the topic of the speech may be.
He believes millennials have replaced real spirituality with sexual expression as a means to finding fulfillment adding, “And what they have done is burned themselves out before they are even in their mid-20s and they have come away empty-handed as well.”
Zacharias offered that only by “touching the soul” will one be fulfilled. He said the challenge to Christians is to communicate the beauty of sexuality and the fact that God’s laws surrounding it are actually liberating and not repressive.
Zacharias’s travels have taught him that millennials “have come to the conclusion that there are no answers anywhere” and that includes those who have left the church and sought out other worldviews. Which leads him to encourage Christians everywhere to approach their unbelieving neighbors with compassion and not to see them as opposition.