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Do we get to define our own truth?
If you listen to the loudest voices our today’s culture, the answer is a resounding “YES.” Our youth, this most precious generation, are struggling to grasp what is true. Many of today’s youth don’t believe that God’s Word is true. They haven’t been able to hear the message that God has for them due to being plugged in to so many other messages. Young people search for truth, and it’s not that truth eludes them, but, today everyone has their own truth and it’s so hard to know what ‘your own’ truth should be. Searching, searching …rejecting everything…finding their own language, their own dress, their own music, their own way of relating, but still…truth continues to elude them.
Lost and insecure; choices and decisions made based upon their experiences and what knowledge they have. Often believing the lies that pass themselves off as the truth; and life happens to them…life where the Bible is of little, if any, relevance; life of meaninglessness, emptiness, and continuous searching. Even churched youth often struggle with where their faith falls in the midst of life in a very complicated society, evidenced by the number of youth who leave the church as they reach adulthood.
Our call, as a faith community, is to be the beautiful feet of the Savior. The youth won’t know unless we help them understand and experience the truth. As youth leaders, we must learn to speak their language, respect their dress, understand their music; relate to them so they can hear the message of Truth. We are called to “tell” them the truth in a way that they can hear and understand.
We can no longer be intimidated, we cannot faint back, nor can we afford to buy into the hopelessness that surely desires to devour our youth. We are being called to join with the Father, and help this generation to see that living by the Word of Truth is life, and living by the lure of the World has no lasting value.
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