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#29: Will Your Kids Faith Survive YouTube? Your Worldview Minute with Jonathan Morrow
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Will Your Kids Faith Survive YouTube? Worldview training is not optional for today’s teenagers. As a parent, pastor, educator or youth pastor you need to know that training in worldview, apologetics, and theology is good for the heart and soul of the next generation. [shareable]We don’t have to choose between reason and relationships.[/shareable] [featured-image single_newwindow="false"] I believe in the next generation. I love getting to spend time with them talking about the big questions of life and the everyday stuff of life. Gen Z has amazing potential and I think God will use them greatly. (Here's my interview with David Kinnaman of the Barna Group and Catalyst podcast on Gen Z) But they must be trained. Worldview training is not optional for today’s teenagers Here’s the bottom line—it’s exhausting to live a compartmentalized faith. Yet, many Christian teenagers are trying to do this impossible task every day. And it’s taking a toll on their soul and faith. The cultural messages are strong, and the challenges are unrelenting. Students are being shaped more by YouTube and Netflix than by what they are hearing on a typical Sunday morning. There’s a disconnect. Faith and feeling goes in one category of life on Sunday; reason and thinking goes in another category the rest of the week. That kind of faith will not survive....
Will Your Kids Faith Survive YouTube? Worldview training is not optional for today’s teenagers. As a parent, pastor, educator or youth pastor you need to know that training in worldview, apologetics, and theology is good for the heart and soul of the next generation. [shareable]We don’t have to choose between reason and relationships.[/shareable] [featured-image single_newwindow="false"] I believe in the next generation. I love getting to spend time with them talking about the big questions of life and the everyday stuff of life. Gen Z has amazing potential and I think God will use them greatly. (Here's my interview with David Kinnaman of the Barna Group and Catalyst podcast on Gen Z) But they must be trained. Worldview training is not optional for today’s teenagers Here’s the bottom line—it’s exhausting to live a compartmentalized faith. Yet, many Christian teenagers are trying to do this impossible task every day. And it’s taking a toll on their soul and faith. The cultural messages are strong, and the challenges are unrelenting. Students are being shaped more by YouTube and Netflix than by what they are hearing on a typical Sunday morning. There’s a disconnect. Faith and feeling goes in one category of life on Sunday; reason and thinking goes in another category the rest of the week. That kind of faith will not survive....
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