This millennial is getting sick and tired of being in the same generation as this.

The arrogance of nominal Christians to me is staggering. You speak with so much authority about a religion you barely know anything about. You have never demonstrated any knowledge of it to me outside of what you learned from the arts-and-crafts macaroni puzzles you made in Sunday School as a toddler.

What do I mean by “nominal” Christians? I mean Christians who attach the label of “Christian” to themselves out of cultural compunction, like in a small town where everyone around them identify as Christians, or Christians who take issue, disagree with, or oppose central Christian doctrines such as the existence of sin, the reality of God’s judgement, and divine inspiration of scripture.

Before we continue, how can you be sure you're a nominal Christian? If you've ever said to yourself, a friend, or a group of people any of the following;

“Yeah, well, I think religion is important, but, you know, love comes first”

“I’m a Christian, but I'm not, like, religious.”

“Religion is really just supposed to help you be a good person.”

… then you're probably nominal. Now, here are the reasons I am over nominal Christians.

The Church does not owe you a personal audience.

Your question is: “Why then, should we blindly serve an institution that we cannot change or shape?”

Here’s where you’ve gotten it very, very wrong. The Church is not an institution that exists to be changed with the tide of popular culture. The Church is not even an institution. The “Church,” as it is used in the New Testament defines Christians who happen to be gathered together. Not a building. Not an event. When Christians gather, they are the Church. In order to be a Church, you must have specific attributes, such as devotion to Christ and his teaching (Acts 2:42), which I have never seen nominal Christians demonstrate.

The problem is not that we don’t care what you think, the problem is that you think you can come into a specific context, a Biblically defined context, defined in a specific way and transform it.

When you receive salvation and you wish to take part of the communion of the Church, you are welcome to join our fellowship.

You have no interest in morality.

I’ll first point out that you have wrongly diagnosed our purpose on earth. Our purpose on earth can be found in Matthew 28:16-20. But that’s beside the point. Let’s take the verse you cited, Mark 12:30-31. What does that mean?

Jesus said that those who love Him follow His commandments (John 14:15). A few questions;

Are you remaining a virgin until you’re married?

Do you refuse to get drunk when you drink?

Do you abstain from pornography?

Do you honor your father and mother?

Do you respect the authorities in your life by virtue of them being your authorities?

Do you tell people about the sacrifice Jesus made for them so that they may be saved and become a part of the community of the saved, a.k.a. the Church?

If you have answered “no” to any of those questions, then you have discovered why the Church in our American context needs mission statements. Of course, you don’t care because morality is subjective, anyway. Any direct commandment of Christ can be explained away, not so that you can fully understand the commandment, but you excuse yourself from following it.

You think you know everything about what the Church does and doesn’t do.

The “Christian activities” you’re reprimanding us for are our efforts to get you to connect. We invite you to small groups so that you won’t be intimidated when you come to the church building. If you don’t come to them even after you’re invited, that’s your problem.

Maybe if you came to church more often than just Christmas and Easter, you would know that the Church is actually doing a lot of things to help the poor and needy. Here’s an extensive list of Church organizations who work with women with unplanned pregnancies state by state. Here’s a church with an organization to end human trafficking. Here are the top four Christian organizations who are feeding the hungry. You could also talk to your local church (the place you attend twice a year) about local opportunities.

Just because you don’t know what going on doesn’t mean nothing’s happening.

I’m tired of you excusing your sin under cultural pretext.

Granted, I have noticed this is more of a liberal Christian issue than a conservative Christian issue, but it seems like once a sin becomes culturally accepted, there’s a new article justifying it.

If you’re still hung up on the Church not doing enough, I refer you to the previous point.

The “I’m Not Joining Your Club Until You Change Everything About It” effect.

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you should work to solve the issue you evidently see so prevalently?

If you think the church building needs more bright colors, volunteer to paint it. If you think the church needs a new focus group, organize it. Don’t just sit back and demand things be done for you.

You blame local churches for televangelist con men.

Here’s something you probably didn’t already know. The majority of churches are not megachurches. The majority of megachurches do not belong to televangelists. Simple, right? They’re local churches trying to serve the communities needs. Once again, if you attended the services more frequently than twice a year, you would know that.

You don’t want to do the work of creating relationships in the Church.

Relationships are a two-way street. If you only attend church twice a year, don’t be surprised when you’re just a face in the crowd and nobody knows who you are.

You want to be the center of attention.

I now refer you back to number one and I want to make a correction. From the second you wake up to the second you take a sleeping pill, your professors, parents, and friends don’t stop telling you how good you are. Suddenly the Church comes in and tells you that you are sinful and need to repent and, in the words of Heath Ledger’s Joker, “EVERYONE LOSES THEIR MINDS!”

You want us to adopt YOUR perspectives on controversial issues.

We will not change our doctrine despite how much you tell us to do so. If you want to have an honest conversation, then we can do that. Otherwise, you’re wasting your time.

Also, I noticed one of your supposed “solutions” to your problems is in direct conflict with your third problem, you know when you told us to have fewer services for Christians. Now you want more services for Christians? Make up your mind.

Your constant sabotage of the Church.

First and foremost, what we should be doing is spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the second person of the triune God and the Jewish Messiah. By default, the world will become a better place as it becomes more moral as more people seek to please their Lord, Savior, and friend.

It’s hard to do that when, according to your own article, you abandon your faith and adopt a postmodern philosophy. Don’t you think it’s pretty hard to make the world a better place when you have no standards for what “better” is aside from your comfort?

Maybe you should have stayed in the church and helped the public image rather than joining the crowd and hurling insults at it.

Blaming the Church.

I now turn your problem with the church back on you. If you want change, then make the change happen or at least work to start a change. How about you give us a tangible plan to reach millennials instead of telling us to come up with it ourselves since it’s obvious to you that we’re a bunch of incompetent know-nothings who are out of touch with reality.

You’re failing to take up your cross.

Millennials have rejected the Church, I refer back to your own article. Here's the bottom line, and I speak now to millennial nominal Christians, in your sin you have rebelled against those under Christ’s lordship. You need to repent of your arrogance and immaturity and beg God for His grace so that you may be saved on the fateful day when you must account for the life you lived on earth.

To the author, you seem to care a lot about being written off, otherwise, you wouldn't have bothered at this pathetic attempt at a virtue signal.

I’m not asking you to become radical alt-right Trump supporters, I’m asking you to understand Christianity. If you don't think there's a difference between the two, then you're suffering from a terrible case of blue pill liberal identity politics.

I'm also not trying to excuse very real abuses that have happened within religious buildings. I see a lot of people yelling at the “church,” which usually amounts to a projection of everything you dislike about organized religion as a whole, and no one doing anything to help the Church. Your poor, bleeding heart must torment you day and night to see so many things wrong with a place you dislike so vehemently.

Here's the unfortunate truth that you cannot escape, not even in a safe space: Social Justice Jesus is a pathetic reflection of what you in your ignorance and doctrinal illiteracy believe Christianity should be. It's a shallow figurehead without definition that only functions as a mean to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

It's not Christianity.

Should Christians seek to remedy the affliction of widows and orphans?

Yes, absolutely. We are commanded to do so. (James 1:27)

Is Christianity an outlet for your socialist unicorn dream?

No. The Church is not a college campus. The world isn't, either. If you want to make the change, then get out and do it. Stop trying to shove the responsibility on someone else's shoulders.