Millennials choose fake theology

It's a different gospel of prosperity without the cross, hope without the atonement.

This is how the article described postmodern theology in practice:

With apps such as Bible Lens - which allows users to create new images using their own photos overlaid with quotes from the Bible - and YouVersion's search-by-emoji function soaring in popularity, Millennials have drastically changed how they approach the Bible's teachings.

This highlights one of the issues with the YouVersion app approach in Fitzpatrick's article. It matches your photos or artistic, shareable images to specific Bible verses. This is not the way to disciple people in important Christian disciplines of: contextual biblical interpretation and learning not to cherry-pick single Bible verses to make them say what we want them to say,

Also, there is a need to refuse to use software that interferes with appropriate interpretation of any text. This does not mean that all software linked to Bible knowledge is to be avoided. I access many articles online, including articles, books, and Bible translations through BibleGateway and BibleHub.

Since YouVersion's function seems to be 'soaring in popularity', this younger generation has postmodernised the Bible through 'search-by-emoji'. This leads to a pick-and-choose Christianity that avoids the wisdom and knowledge of God gained through fear of Him.

I have no confidence that it will develop disciples who know how to study the Scriptures with this foundation, 'Wisdom begins with fear and respect for the Lord. Knowledge of the Holy One leads to understanding' (Proverbs 9:10).

Apps and cherry-picking

Building a foundation for faith on apps that pick and choose Bible verses to go with the artistic images you use, is like building one's house on the sand of intuitive emotion of feel-good faith. See Matthew 7:24-28. Taking action on what apps decide is not practising biblical Christianity.

Millennials hopeless hope

One of the major issues presented by this research and in the article is the use of Jeremiah 29:11 to generate hope for a prosperous future for Millennial Christians of the 21^st century.

This verse was not addressed to Christians living in the AD centuries, but to the Jewish exiles King Nebuchadnezzar had sent to Babylon in about 598/7 BC and  587/6 BC. This formally ended in 538 BC (see Jer 29:1).

Jeremiah 29:10-11 reads:

"'Only when the seventy years of Babylonian rule are over will I again take up consideration for you. Then I will fulfill my gracious promise to you and restore you to your homeland. For I know what I have planned for you,' says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope'".