Millenials and the Church: Conversations Continue in Circles

Rachel Held Evans, a grassroots-style author and blogger, recently contributed to a piece on CNN about why Millenials (claiming to speak for them, just like Crumpton (apologies for a few words in the linked article), who, in my opinion, deserves more critical response than Evans) are leaving the Church. As always, there's a plethora of responses from pastors and other Christian bloggers from different parts of the theology-and-culture spectrum. Justin Taylor joins the party and keeps a partial link list here.

As a supposed Millenial myself, also a pastor, I still feel the whole conversation is going in circles. Evans, in part, seems to say to the Church, "Stop being so consumer-driven and give Millenials what we want." Respondents to such critique are being too vague and unhelpful in their advice: "Uncool is the new cool." Others are unwilling or unable to see the time-boundness of their church practice and communicate the transcendence of the Gospel and biblical living to the next generation, in this case, a seeming "self-entitled" generation. In my opinion, the actual ministries that are truly making a difference in the lives of many Millenials are rarely mentioned or promoted by any of the aforementioned, and they're sadly rare.

Thoughts?