Tuesday, June 13, 2006
"A Generation Crisis"
Posted with Permission from:
Rev. Pat Hackworth, In Christ Service Ministries
Did you know:
Teens are the largest percent of our population.
In WW2 65% of Americans were bible believing Christians.
By the time this generation teens are adults only 4% of them are expected to be bible believing Christians.
8,000 teens a day get STDs.
This is the first generation ever that kids are more influenced by outside influences than in the home. Outside influences: Internet, television, video games, gangs, and cults.
Most kids spend an average of 35-55 hours a week watching television.
Video games teach kids how to plan and execute murders and many kids are in jail as a result.
1 out of every 11 have attempted suicide.
1 out of 10 fifteen year olds and younger have gone through a divorce in their family.
40% have experimented with self injury. (cutters)
1 of 10 females in high school have reported being raped at some point in their lives.
91% say there is no absolute truth.
75% of teens in USA believe the central message in the bible is, "God helps those who help themselves."
53% believe Jesus committed sin.
40% of born again teens believe Jesus committed sin.
This generation spends three hours a day online and is the first to grow up with point and click pornography. Almost 90% of teens have viewed pornography online at one of the 300,000 adult websites, most while doing homework.
More than 25 percent of teen-targeted radio segments contain sexual content; 42 percent of top selling CD's contain sexual content.
With more than $128 billion dollars in their pockets, this generation of teens have been targeted by corporate America, who does everything it can to grow brands and profits without any regard to the moral decay of a generation. Advertisers know that if they gain a customer by the age of 13 most are usually customers for life. (Cigarettes, video games, alcohol, etc.)
Most people commit to become a Christian by the time they reach their 20's. (or not at all).
250,000 babies are born out of wedlock to teens and it is a chief cause of poverty.
Most all churches pour their money into adult programs because they foresee the adults as the tithers. However, churches that do offer excellent youth programs draw adults because the adults "bring" the kids.
Churches that think, "outside the box" (outside the church doors) are more successful at reaching kids today. Small churches with limited income can co-sponsor youth programs.
Spiritual Weapons:
ü The Word of God.
ü Praise and worship.
ü Prayer (our first line of defense)
ü Obedience
ü Love: Love can overcome evil with good.
Scriptures for Father's day:
Ephesians 6:4: Bible Quotes about Fathers
Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4: Bible Quotes about Fathers
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Quote for today
Clarence Budington Kelland: Happy Father's Day Quotes
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Did you know?
The word "husband" comes from the Latin word that means "house band". The husband is what binds the family together.
