Young Christians want meat, not broth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

As Kate Shalnut with Christianity Today writes, evangelicals under 40 are twice as likely as

their seniors, but want more substance from the pulpit. She's referring to a new survey on

church satisfaction from Gray Matter Research Group. Not only through 3 and 10 evangelicals want more

in-depth teaching, but the strong majority are happy with how the church handles even tougher topics like giving her politics.

It correlates with the 2017 Gallup poll which showed that 83% of Protestants consider learning about Scripture the main reason they go to church.

That outpaces other worthy things like kids programming, musical worship, or social opportunities.

Now of course, making churchgoers happy is not the ultimate metric here of Christian faithfulness.

But that might exactly be the point.

Strategies to make churches relevant and interesting have to be grounded in what is still the

main thing, the truth of God's word.

Watering it down isn't just unfruitful or unwise.

It's a bad retention strategy. For the Colson Center,

I'm John Stone Street with The Point.