The Battle For Young People

Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. An accurate description of how we’ve been preparing our youth in the church. Too often children’s and youth ministries are led by people who are untrained and under equipped. When our youth get to college, they have had little discussion as to truth, Christian identity or purpose. They have been given absolutely no Biblical skill set to deal with the subjects of justice, identity, or gender roles, even though they most definitely will deal with those in college, and yet we still wonder why they get blindsided when they get on campus. Psalm 119 echoes the rest of Scripture in the importance of training our youth to have a love for God and His commands (Deut 6:4-7; Prov 22:6). Young people at this age are full of potential and very pliable as they decide who they are and what their guiding principles will be going forward.

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