More youth leaders are preaching the alarming exit of college students from the church yet churches don't seem to be grasping the significance of the loss of even one youth. "I'm fearful that we as a church in the U.S. are using the word 'lost' incorrectly," says Youth Transition Network coordinator Jeff Schadt. A theological span of church groups and college ministries are unanimously behind the effort to transition high school youth to college nationally so they more readily retain their Christian faith. The former "Ministry Edge" dropped its name and existence this month to birth the Youth Transition Network, sponsor of LiveAbove.com, involving some 40 leaders from major ministries such as Campus Crusade for Christ, InterVarsity, the Navigators, Chi Alpha Ministries, and the National Network of Youth Ministries. Today 70% to 80% of youth who are involved in a Christian ministry in high school. Read on here http://www.christianpost.com/article/20061112/22831.htm
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- 16/11/2006 @ 09:15:46
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philipedwards
- http://www.homechurch.org.nz
- 16/11/2006 @ 09:42:58
Yes, that does not look 2 good does it? I wonder also whether it is because many of these kids have been cocooned away going to Youth Group, even Christian Schools, and it has not prepared them well for the real world so to speak. I also think it may mainly be that at the beginning of varsity is also the time they leave home, so it shows that the religous faith they had was more a family or cultural faith then anything they held to deeply. Also when they lived at home church was where lots of there freinds were so they identified it as positive, when they move to go to varsity they have no friends at church therfore not identifying it as positive. SO there Church attendence and Christian identification was built around friends which is not a good premise to start with but which I suspect many young Christians do especially in these youth churches and certainly in any youth group you wonder in to. Kids do not attend out of conviction but out of the mighty hook of friends.
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So, they get educated, and then they stop coming to church...
Hmmmm....