Why are there barely any young black adults in church?

[Memorial Stadium Piru]

I'm a born again Christian. I recently left the church I grew up at after spending almost every Sunday there since 1999. I left because I'm too old to be in the youth group anymore (13-19) and my church has literally ZERO young adults besides myself. In addition to that, I love my pastor to death BUT I don't feel like his message really resonates with me. He tailors his sermon for the old people in the church. The congregation is 60% old people in their 60s & 70s, 30% people in their 30s & 40s, and 10% are the kids/grandkids of the aforementioned groups.

I then set out for my new church home. I've found several churches with LOTS of young people in the congregation, and I've found several black churches. Here's the problem I've kept running into:

-THE YOUNG CHURCHES ARE ALL WHITE/WHITE-PASSING LATINOS, AND I DON'T WANNA BE IN A ROOM FULL OF TRUMP VOTERS
-THE BLACK CHURCHES ARE ALL FULL OF OLD FARTS THAT CAN'T & WON'T RELATE TO ME

This is all extremely irritating to deal with. Can't no place give me that home feeling like a black church, but I need a place with a young adult small group that can empathize with my daily struggle as a young Christian prone to weakness in an unclean world.

 

[Pure Water]

Because church isn’t needed. I would say black people are becoming less religious (and that might be the case, even though my Twitter tl says otherwise) but ain’t nobody trying to pay 10% so their pastor can buy a new sports car.

 

[Actually6Foot3]

We hopped off the religious slave ship
You lost


You'll only catch me in church for

1. Someone's wedding

2. Someone's funeral

 

[JQ Legend]

Because young black people or young people in general ain't as gullible

Tombout 40 day floods while predators and their prey peacefully coexist on a boat

I fukks with the Bible and think it has gems in it but the fact most Bible believers take the stories literally and expect others to is why they get the this generation

 

[Henri Christophe]

Cause young nikkas is out in the real world grinding for that paper.... We aint got time to sit around and pray

We out in the real world gettin to it cause aint nobody gon give it to us.....

We can talk to god while we grinding.... fukk all that gettin dressed and sitting in church shyt.....

 

[42 Monks]

I'm a born again Christian. I recently left the church I grew up at after spending almost every Sunday there since 1999. I left because I'm too old to be in the youth group anymore (13-19) and my church has literally ZERO young adults besides myself. In addition to that, I love my pastor to death BUT I don't feel like his message really resonates with me. He tailors his sermon for the old people in the church. The congregation is 60% old people in their 60s & 70s, 30% people in their 30s & 40s, and 10% are the kids/grandkids of the aforementioned groups.

I then set out for my new church home. I've found several churches with LOTS of young people in the congregation, and I've found several black churches. Here's the problem I've kept running into:

-THE YOUNG CHURCHES ARE ALL WHITE/WHITE-PASSING LATINOS, AND I DON'T WANNA BE IN A ROOM FULL OF TRUMP VOTERS
-THE BLACK CHURCHES ARE ALL FULL OF OLD FARTS THAT CAN'T & WON'T RELATE TO ME

This is all extremely irritating to deal with. Can't no place give me that home feeling like a black church, but I need a place with a young adult small group that can empathize with my daily struggle as a young Christian prone to weakness in an unclean world.

that's kind of the problem with the outreach in general

that perspective has zero resonance with a younger generation

you can be religious and have a wide umbrella - black churches aren't normally going on mission trips, traveling far, bringing in people from other areas, etc. can't blame the kids for not wanting to be a part of that

 

[Mandarin Duck]

I know once I had the option of going to Church or not I never went back
I'm not about to willingly spend time in a place I was forced to spend time in as a kid

 

[cjlaw93]

That Church shyt dead for the youth breh..they realize Jesus ain’t shyt and they ain’t fukkin with it

 

[Moody]

Because white hedonistic people taught us that any semblance of spirituality is unintelligent and fickle.

 

[levitate]

Because progress.

 

[ThatTruth777]

I can only speak for myself but its more than one thing. The most gentle one I suppose would be, its like going through the motions. Robotic.

 

[cjlaw93]

I know once I had the option of going to Church or not I never went back
I'm not about to willingly spend time in a place I was forced to spend time in as a kid

This is another way a lot of people think too that makes sense

 

[NeilCartwright]

A lot of people mean to go to church, raised in the church, but just procrastinate and put it off. Months turn to years.

I’m more spiritual these days but I can see myself really getting back going when I settle down. My ol lady prob gonna make me start going again

 

[bx.lion]

Black Christtianity needs to clean up it's perception of pastors milking the congregation. Most young black people are agnostic at worst and wouldn't mind popping in for a week or two. But I feel ppl draw the line with the blatant money grabs going on in some churches.

 

[DreadBrown]

We like to fukk and sleep in on Sunday mornings

Seriously in 2018 the church has nothing to offer young black people.