2007-12-02 15:03:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I want to. I love Church, My Church is full of young people. I haven't noticed what you have noticed. I have been going to church for more than 50 years.
I am 59.
2007-12-02 15:13:12 · answer #1 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My mom started going to church about a year ago, she's 71. She went till she was a young adult, then only visited at holidays.She had a mental breakdown a couple years back, had to deal with an alcoholic daughter of 43 doing naughty things on a sex cam (wasn't me..). And being forced to raise her grandson for awhile, leaving my dad and her nearly separating after almost 50 years of marriage.She needed to find solace in her life that had to come from a far greater force than her family. Yep, God and Ativan...whatever works.
2007-12-02 23:22:52 · answer #2 · answered by zen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people don't get saved until middle age or older and others are just afraid because they are getting older. Joining a church without being saved does no one any good when death comes. I'm sure you know that.
2007-12-02 23:10:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The brain is fully developed around the age of 25. Coincidentally, that is when most people begin to develop an interest in religion.
2007-12-02 23:20:10 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they led "sinful" lives where they had all kinds of fun and made decisions for themselves and lived life and learned from it, and now that they are over the hump and see death coming they do it "just to be safe" so they don't go to the imaginary hell they've been hearing about forever. Happens all the time, like my grandma.
2007-12-02 23:10:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is your evidence that younger people aren't going to church?
At Mass this morning -- and every Sunday morning -- I see quite a few under-40s there.
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2007-12-02 23:22:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They find that something has been missing from their lives. They begin to search for the truth.
2007-12-02 23:07:41 · answer #7 · answered by grandma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually out of life long habit.
2007-12-02 23:09:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure of that? I have understood that most newcomers to church were younger.
2007-12-02 23:15:47 · answer #9 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are looking for the truth, and becoming more aware of right and wrong
2007-12-02 23:09:45 · answer #10 · answered by Sara G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋