Go To Church, Justin Bieber

“Does going to church make someone a Christian?” Certainly, it doesn’t make them a saint. Someone could be an evil person who goes to church every Sunday, or a living saint, whose shadow has never darkened the door.

And yet, the Millennial generation, of which I am a part, can be too quick to dismiss churchgoing as a meaningless exercise in keeping up appearances. We are a sometimes spiritual, but never religious generation. When it comes to religious affiliation we are Generation None. Justin Bieber is emblematic of a larger culture of Americans who think that we don’t need worship, organized religion, or church.

But isn’t that precisely what we need?