What Did Young People Say?
We interviewed various young people about their hopes, dreams and opinions about The Salvation Army. Here are a few of their comments: ‘It’s got the potential at its very best to be absolutely awesome, and absolutely sublime and be absolutely what God intended it to be, but at the other end of the scale it’s got the potential to be absolutely horrendous and it’s just so frustrating. I think my passion for it stems from that…frustration about what we could be… We have a massive potential and that is ahead of us rather than behind us.’ 25-year-old male ‘Sometimes I don’t understand why they have so many rules…they are a bit old-fashioned. They are trying to become modern, but they are keeping all the rules the same… It’s different to whenever it was set up so I don’t see why it doesn’t change.’ 11-year-old male ‘The Salvation Army has created a culture even separate from other churches let alone society in general.’ 25-year-old male ‘A lot of The Salvation Army has young people t
