When the Canaries Stop Singing

Authors

Martin Weber

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

Concerned about attrition of Adventist students attending secular campuses, we seek ways of inducing them to remain with us—unaware that their departure is due to systemic dysfunction in churches throughout North America. The causative factor of young adult attrition is judgmentalism resulting from a lack of knowing how to love. We have forgotten a core insight into the Great Controversy—that love requires freedom of choice, despite the inevitable risks. Paradoxically, our very concern about safeguarding the spirituality of our young adults generates a judgmental counterfeit of love that drives them away in a spirit of toxic anxiety.

First Page

99

Last Page

102

Book Title

Reach the Campus, Reach the World

Editor

Steve Case

Publisher

Advent Source

City

Lincoln, NE

Series

The 180° Symposium

ISBN

9781629093666

Recommended Citation

Weber, Martin, "When the Canaries Stop Singing" (2010). 180 Symposium Publications. 111.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cye-pubs/111

Acknowledgements

Posted with permission, Center for Youth Evangelism at Andrews University