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<p class="text">I knew things were changing several years ago when our church began the second phase of our construction and were ready to build a gym. Everything was going according to plan until the student ministers asked us not to build a gym. A gymnasium, they told us, wouldn't support the kind of ministry our student leaders envisioned for this current generation of students. (Have you ever tried to balance sound levels for a band in a gym?)</p>
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<p class="text">Of course, when we made the announcement, we had a firestorm of blowback -- not from the students, but from their parents. Why wouldn't we build a gym? All of them had grown up playing basketball at the church. Their children should have the same opportunity.</p>
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<p class="text">There was just one problem. Their children didn't play basketball after school. They all went to Starbucks and texted each other with the latest gossip and homework assignments. If we wanted to reach students in this generation, we needed to build a facility that supported the way students did life. We needed a facility that supported multiple worship experiences, workshops, conferences, and a cafe that served really good coffee.</p>
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<p class="text">I'm a boomer. My generation moved through the system like the last meal swallowed by a python. I was always in the largest class of every school I attended. Every city I lived in was growing. My tribe went to big high schools and shopped at malls as large as small cities. The malls had everything. Every kind of store, every kind of restaurant -- and some even had amusement parks in them. As a teenager, you went to the mall just to walk around in circles to see who else had come to the mall. You could shop, eat, see a movie, and have a late-night snack before you went home. And you could do it all under ...</p><p class="more"><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/scot-mcknight/2021/august/one-size-doesnt-fit-all.html">Continue reading</a>...</p>
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