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. . . Abstractions adversely affect our mission and our programs. When we make abstractions of millennials, they become the future of the church, so we must divine what appeals to them and develop new programs accordingly to lure them in. But again [Eugene] Peterson observes, "The attractiveness of a program is that it simplifies by depersonalizing: get everyone doing the same thing for the same goal." It is easier to develop a new program than to minister grace to a sinner, and that is exactly what a millennial is: a sinner in need of the reconciling love of Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us. There is no mystery here, so there is no need to radically alter the mission of the church. . . .
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