Why are there barely any young black adults in church?

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Wanya Morris said:
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.
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Wanya Morris said:
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.
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You actually answered your own question in your third and fourth sentences.

I've had a similar experience, where I was in that weird middle ground between Youth and Adult, too grown for the youth pastor's sermons on navigating high school but too young for the lectures on maintaining a marriage and raising God-fearing children. So I basically got 3 answers for you:
1. Church is no longer relatable. It's not tailored toward our demographic or instructing us on how to deal with our problems. At best we're told they don't matter, mainly because they don't matter when you're 40.
2. Church is too resistant to change. Too many of them have their own traditions that they want to maintain forever, but as times change and people change, they become increasingly stale. I'm not saying the pillars of Christianity should change, but pastors and board members should be aware and accommodating of new social trends and issues. There's been a recent shift to a more modern version of church with live bands, pastors in skinny jeans, and mobile apps.
3. Chuch isn't important. As a young person, your main goals are job security or academic achievement, financial stability, or relationship related. Church ain't getting you closer to any of them.

NOW, that being said, true Christianity is a lot more complex and goes in a bunch of directions contrary to what society believes. We as young people tend to put a high level of importance on unimportant things and lean on our own understanding and experience to navigate life. Then we spend the next 10-15 years flourishing faster then falling harder than we thought was possible, until we find ourselves 40, sitting in the Church pew looking over at the 20 somethings absorbed in their phones, wondering if they just heard the gem the pastor dropped that would have changed your life completely if you had only known 10 years ago.

In my own experience, I was more concerned with finding a pastor that could preach effectively to me. It also helped the church is near several universities so young people made up a large portion of the congregation. The pastor has to conduct church in a way to cater to his audience.
 
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maybe cuz daughters wives and aunties are food forthe pastors

i really dont know actually
 
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I think location is important and if we were to take a poll obviously Blacks in more southern/rural towns would be far more religious then Black living in more liberal areas on the West Coast, and im certain Blacks that live in extreme poverty/violence as they are in the Midwest would be more atheist.
 
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There are various reasons for this: false prophets have morally bankrupted the religious institution of the church, people do not want to be held accountable, and hedonism.
The Catholic Church is full of pedophiles, megachurches stealing money from the poor and desperate, pastors using their positions to prey on lost women. There's a lot of this going around. The good ones are few and far in-between.
People do not like being held accountable for their actions. Everyone is selfish. The Bible is full of rules and regulations for moral behavior. No one wants to do the work to better themselves.
Everyone likes sex. They smoke weed or drink because it feels good and even casual users could not stop even if they wanted too.

Long story short, this just proves Babylon is rising again in western culture.

Babylon system is the vampire,

Stay strong, OP!
 
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the youngerns aint for the bullshyt.
fukk being pimped in the name of
white jesus.
if they were more organized and hive minded
i'd find the peace to kick back and let them run
shyt but it aint there yet.
I step out the whip and it's the same bullshyt.

*walks on liquor store*

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