The Lost Generation

In our church we reach mainly unchurched people, and people who once were dedicated to God but let their commitment to him slip away.  80 percent of those we reach were either back slidden and unchurched before we found them.   What I have found in teaching the children is that many of the children that come in do not know the basic bible stories.   The story of Moses, Noah, King David, Jonah, Joshua...they do not know these bible stories at all.   Yet, they know all about vampires, and warlocks, and ghost!   They know more about the basics of eastern religions and fighting styles, but many of them cannot tell me the name of even one of Jesus' disciples.   We have lost the youth of America through neglect.   Some of these children have grand parents that have been in church since these children were born, and yet they never took the time to teach them anything of the Bible in their homes.  These kids can explain to me all about the theory of evolution and name all the different dinosaurs and cave men, but they cannot tell me anything about creation and what God made on each day of creation, or that he spoke this world into existence.    The Bible says that we should train up a child in the way they should go.    

I have heard a lot of talk online about a third great awakening, a move of the Holy Spirit that will awaken souls from their spiritual slumber and turn them to God.   I am here to tell you that if we as Christians, churches and parents would just teach the next generation about God, we would see a nation turn to God.   We are so busy taking our kids to ball practise, choir practise, soccer games, birthday parties and the like, and we neglect their spiritual training.   We teach them to excel in sports but we fail to teach them to obey and to honor God.   I have heard so many people complain about prayer being took out of schools.   When prayer returns to the home and to the church, it will return to the schools in time as well.   The church has failed this nation, and the price of that failure is a generation that no longer knows God.    If we want to save the nation we have to begin at home with our children and grand children.  If we don't teach them to pray at home, they are not going to pray at school either.

One thing that  I have learned in working with young people is that parents seldom allow their kids to become more spiritual than what they are.   You have no idea how many times kids have come home fired up from church camp only to have spiritually complacent parents that put a damper on their spiritual fervor.   If we would fully commit to God and model that behavior to our children and granchildren and teach them the ways of the Kingdom, revival  would be on our shores today.