Abstract

Young people in their twenties and thirties are spiritual people. Like the generations who have gone before and those yet to come, the inner yearning for God continues to captivate and perturb the human spirit. The words of St. Augustine still pertain: “Our hearts are restless, O God, until they rest in Thee.” Yet, our young singles and couples are conspicuously absent from the churches. They have separated themselves from organized religion and are “altering the religious landscape of America in the 1990’s” (Roof, 1993:1). Who are these younger generations, how is it that they are not in relationship with the institutional Church, and do we, today’s church ministers, have what it takes to handle the potential challenges?

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