180 Symposium Publications
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