I read a powerful post yesterday by Elevation Church Pastor, Steven Furtick, regarding where the church is falling short in reaching and ministering to the present generation of teenagers.
Here's an excerpt from his post, "Staying Out of Trouble vs. Walking In Your Calling":
I feel that the greatest peril in modern Christianity relating to youth culture is that we are under challenging this generation of students with an anemic alternate version of the Gospel that isn’t worth keeping your pants on for. We lull them to sleep with do’s and don’ts instead of waking them up to the God-given potential inside of them. The truth is you can stay out of trouble but fall short of your calling. You can stay out of trouble, but live a life of little impact or significance.
When a student comes to understand that God has something for them far greater than sex, alcohol, and the pursuit of short-lived high school popularity, everything changes. These things lose their attractiveness. And it has nothing to do with staying out of trouble. Their motivation is that they would not dare risk the glorious destiny God has for them by wasting their time on anything that could short-circuit it.
Students (and all of us for that matter) don’t need rules to live by. They need a calling to live for.
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