In the last post I said that over all, Christian adults today deserve a much higher level of teaching than they are presently receiving. But what about our Christian youth? What are they getting? For the past 35 years, churches and youth pastors feel that to get and retain teens in church we have to make everything fun and "relevant." In many churches there has been little Bible teaching and little good application. And presently, we have the emergent doctrines and thoughts flooding into many of our youth groups, much of which is very similar to liberal Protestant thought, as I've written here before ad nauseum.
I believe our youth deserve more. Let's look at the results of all of the years of "pizza" church youth groups and see how they have fared as adults. That would be approximately the 25-50 age group.
1. Polls show that there is a big problem in the Biblical literacy of this group
2. Divorce rates are now almost 50% among Christians, most of them in this age group.
3. Worldiness has come into the church in unprecedented ways mainly through the leadership of this age group.
The evangelical movement is in the worst shape that I've ever seen. If we don't do something in our churches to reach the youth better than we've done, it will get much worse. I've also said here that as the church goes, so the country goes. If the church goes down, and it will if we don't get back to the foundational truths, then the country goes down.
Our youth deserve better. So do our churches.
Feed Croaked, Sorry!
7 hours ago
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I couldn't agree more. As a youth who is a convener of many youth events, I am amazed sometimes at the Biblical illiteracy of some of my peers. When I was child, my favorite book was the Bible and I've never had troubles reading it. But I know people who need the Table of Contents to find the four Gospels, don't realize that the David who killed Goliath and the David that slept with Bathsheba are the same person, or can't tell me the name of some of the basic apostles: who betrayed Jesus, who denied Jesus, and who doubted his resurrection. However, it's normally not their fault. In Sunday School, it was common for the teacher to turn to me for clarification on a certain point. How can we expect youth to know the Bible if the people teaching it to them don't know it?
Amen. I wrote a post about this entitled Time For Sunday School, Kids!
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