Derek,

I really appreciated your thoughts in this article.  Many of your thoughts resonated with me and many of my friends. We are all Millenials who have left the Church/Christianity/organized religion. Too much of church boils down to tweaking and chasing fads with a consumeristic mentality.  I fear that even many Emerging/Emergent churches/communities are following in the same mentality and may result in just another cosmetic layer of the same faulty foundations. I hope we can move forward and really address the root issues that have resulted from the Church leaving Jesus behind and not just keep addressing the symptoms that this departure has caused.