Our Youth

Exodus 13. In giving Moses the reminders of details concerning the festival and firstborn, I want you to pay attention to Exodus 13:8. We are to share our testimony and especially with the next generation. And our testimony should be personal: "this is...what the LORD did for me..." Salvation is personal if it is real. Salvation is personal if it is genuine. I often ask people, 'to you, who is Jesus?' I get back many answers: "He is the Son of God, crucified, buried, rose again on the third day..." "He is the Savior of the world" etc. All of these answers are theologcially correct. But my question is TO YOU who is Jesus? The correct answer is HE'S MY SAVIOUR! It must be personal or else no salvation has taken place.

And we must pass our faith on to our children because unbelief is always one generation away. John Maxwell said, "One generation cannot do without the other...The older generation is our link with the past; the younger generation is our link with the future, and we need both!" Winston Churchill once said, "If we draw up conflict between the present and the past, we lose the future." In other words, if there is a constant negative attitude toward our youth and younger generation, we lose the future. Scores of churches have unconsciously (and sometimes knowly) run all the younger folks off with the attitude: 'we're going to do things around here the way we did it 50 years ago'. Well, you'll have no church in the next 50 years because you run the future church off. The younger generation is our link with the future and if we draw up conflict between the generations, we lose the future. Our task is simply tell them what God has done for us. Then let them work out their own salvation (Phil.2:12) in the context of their own generation. Today, take the time to pray for our youth and youth pastors around the globe. And pray for your children and grandchildren. Then take those opportunities to share with them what God has done for you. God bless.