If you go to a church over the Christmas season you may be surprised by how few teenagers are there at their own free will.
Before you fire the youth pastor, parents may want to look into their own lives to understand the lack of faith engagement of their children.
A lot of research agrees that our youth faithfully mirror the aspirations, passions, lifestyles, practices, and problems of the adult world into which they are being socialized.
In these ways, our teens may actually serve as a very accurate barometer of the conditions of the culture and institutions of our larger society.
Christian Smith
And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today.
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house,
when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Duet 6:6-9
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