From Attendance to Attachment
Eric Marvin, Pastor
In Week 1 of Becoming Future Ready, Pastor Eric Marvin begins a four-week conversation about how Journey Church can faithfully pass the truth of God to the generations that come after us. Grounded in Psalm 78, the series asks what shifts we may need to make—not in the truth we believe, but in the posture of our hearts and the way we engage a changing world.
Young generations are increasingly disconnected from organized religion, yet their desire for spiritual meaning and connection has not disappeared. Rather than seeing this only as discouraging news, Pastor Eric challenges us to recognize the opportunity: people are still searching for purpose, belonging, and connection with something greater than themselves.
The first shift is moving from attendance to attachment. A healthy church is not simply a room filled with people attending programs or services. The Church is the body of Christ—a community where people can attach themselves to God, experience His presence, worship together, and live in authentic relationship with their Creator.
Psalm 78 reminds us that faith was never intended to stop with us. Each generation receives the wisdom of those who came before and is responsible for faithfully passing it to the generation that follows. Becoming future ready means helping the next generation discover that church is more than somewhere they attend—it is a community where they can know God, belong to His body, and walk deeply with Him.
