Barna-driven Christianity

In Schuller-esque fashion of defining Christianity by popular opinion, The Barna Research Group makes the pages of USA Today with the new book, UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity…

From USA Today: Youth See Christians as Judgmental, Anti-gay by Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service: "Majorities of young people in America describe modern-day Christianity as judgmental, hypocritical and anti-gay. What’s more, many Christians don’t even want to call themselves "Christian" because of the baggage that accompanies the label…"
David Kinnaman, Barna Group president and author of the book, comments "The anti-homosexual perception has now become sort of the Geiger counter of Christians’ ability to love and work with people."

(Ed. note: Rick Warren seems to equate the Biblical admonition against homosexuality as crippling..) "For some time now, the hands and feet of the body of Christ have been amputated, and we’ve been pretty much reduced to a big mouth," Warren wrote. "We talk more than we do. It’s time to reattach the limbs and let the church be the church in the 21st century."

Purpose-Driven Life author and pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., Rick Warren used the new book UnChristian to say he hopes the church will become "known more by what it is for than what it is against."

Editor’s note: Professor Jack Rogers, professor of Theology Emeritus at San Francisco Theological Seminary, should be thrilled with the self-examination of the Body of Christ that Kinnaman has performed and America’s pastor, Rick Warren has endorsed.

Read the USA Today article here.
Photo credit Bob Riha Jr., USA TODAY