“Moore said these folks “are, in many cases, not to the left of their parents and grandparents, but theologically speaking, to the right of their parents and grandparents. Many of them are rejecting a style of preaching that they heard in the seeker-sensitive movement of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s that essentially turned the biblical text into the equivalent of Aesop’s Fables: Here are the ways to apply the text in terms of having your best life now.”

Go left, young evangelical. Some liberal pundits say that’s our reality, but it’s only their dream. Sure, some in their 20s and 30s who went to liberal colleges and read liberal media still believe what they’re told, but many have become skeptics.

Russell Moore expressed this better than I have when he spoke with journalists recently at one of the forums Michael Cromartie runs in Florida. Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said, “A vibrant evangelical church plant often will include people wearing tattoos and earrings and nose rings, but this doesn’t mean that these people are moving into the age of Aquarius.”

Moore said these folks “are, in many cases, not to the left of their parents and grandparents, but theologically speaking, to the right of their parents and grandparents. Many of them are rejecting a style of preaching that they heard in the seeker-sensitive movement of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s that essentially turned the biblical text into the equivalent of Aesop’s Fables: Here are the ways to apply the text in terms of having your best life now.”

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