Here are my reflections and results:
1. The average young person refuses to get up in the morning because they are really depressed. They don’t want to face any more information.
2. Most young people have lost all sense of morality, integrity or any other social or biblical “measurement of right’ except to do what is right in their eyes.
3. Peer pressure has increased exponentially and young people feel a need to keep up with the deluge of situational ethics coming at them. The preacher and the church have been replaced by Hollywood and the lyrics in the music.
4. A specific issue is the lack of value to what one says or promises they will do. Keeping your word has become a dinosaur in today’s culture. If you don’t believe me ask the managers what is the greatest problem they face with this generation in the workforce. Take out the trash and clean your room, forget it!
5. Another one we need to watch is the resulting lack of loyalty in relationships. Living together is the norm and sex is not a question of if but a question of when. This is also seen in church youth as “church hopping” is normal and most young people visit as many as 3-5 churches when they do go.
6. In an effort to a attract a already wowed audience the presence of the Lord and its results has been exchanged for or diluted by ambience lighting, sound effects, stage shows, fog machines and Christian celebrities. Big is the new great and expensive is the new valuable.
7. Finally this new generation has no patience. If it isn’t instant it isn’t good. With technology erasing the instant world record daily something lasting or suffering the test of time is of no importance. This generation wants it and they want it now. Millionaires will be made instantly by providing this culture with what it wants. Ask the Skype inventors who just sold to Microsoft for 8.5 billion dollars for a short 7 year investment. My God I have been in ministry for 25 years this month! Maybe I am just not giving this culture what it wants?
So what can we do to help this generation? Some would say who cares but for some of us it’s our children, nieces, nephews and grandchildren and we want to do all we can to help them. We don’t just see their faults but we see the great giftings that the Lord has given them. We do see that when they awake “for short periods of time” they are the most loving and giving people on earth! Much more than we were because they have been sensitized to hurt and need. I believe the Lord has placed something special in their DNA to give, serve and bring in the final harvest.
May God help us WE make the decisions that will help them in the coming days.
Jose Bosque
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