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Friday Five: Caleb Breakey

Calling Millennials to stay in church.

For today's entry in the Friday Five interview series, we catch up with Caleb Breakey.

Caleb Breakey is author of Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church. You can follow him on Twitter. Caleb also has a forthcoming book to be published in January 2014 titled, Dating Like Airplanes: Why Just Fall in Love When You Can Fly?

Today we chat with Caleb about Millennials, authenticity, and listening.

In your book, Called to Stay, you voice some of the generational tensions that Millennials have voiced and yet you don't counsel them to give up on the church, but to stay, why?

There's a vibe circulating among Millennials that Jesus would turn over tables in most churches. I totally get that. Some churches are really unlovely. But you know what Jesus would do in those churches? He would speak the truth. He would say, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear" (Matthew 11:15). He would love the unlovely people inside them the same way he loves sinners and tax collectors. He would commend ...

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