lulz, Dean is just upset that teens are following any type Christianity....... =.=
If true, people are in for one *hell* of a disappointment. God made us in His image. Efforts to reverse the process will invariably prove futile.
No God wants you to repent and accept his son Jesus Christ as savior.
13 through 17 year olds are inarticulate and indifferent.
Who knew?
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It’s the “Rick Warren-Joel Olsteen-Robert Schuller-Let’s all feel good” plan for salvation. These hucksters are leading people to an eternity of suffering by telling them God wants them to feel good. “And while you’re at it, donate some money so my ministry can reach around the world and help others feel good.” When in truth, the devil is more than happy to make you feel good today for your soul tomorrow.
Most teens can't (or won't) talk coherently about *anything*, even Scandinavian death metal drum technique. They just look at you, rather like catz, and wait for you to get distracted so they can leave.
The fruit of lack of parental involvement and the failed experiment called “youth groups.” Our children are being fed this stuff and then we’re disappointed when they don’t embrace our faith. Ken Ham has had some great material on this recently. In our churches, we teach our young people “Bible stories” and then they go to the government schools and learn all about how the Bible is wrong with “scientific facts”. They are young adults, yet we put them in “youth groups” where they are able to act like little kids.
All the studies I’ve seen in recent years indicate that 90+% of youth leave the church after they graduate from high school. How can we reach the world when we can’t even reach our own kids?
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I tell the kids in my Confirmation Class that Jesus didn't suffer horribly, and die on the Cross, just so that we could feel good about ourselves.
Commitment to a vibrant faith community that doesn't clearly preach the Law and the Gospel may produce teens willing and able to change the world, but it won't do a thing for their souls. Saving faith comes through hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ. (Rom 10:17)
Being devoted to a spiritual worldview and able to articulate it clearly is worse than meaningless if it lacks the power to save.
I found her conclusions pretty specious. I can’t speak for my eldest, as he’s an adult, on his own. The four at home, however, aren’t likely to fit the column’s descriptions. My eldest daughter comes along to every TLM I go to. We live near a NO parish, but plan on a transition to an FSSP one soon. I don’t feel I need to worry about youth group issues there. And really, I always felt that teens, to some degree, are mutants, regardless of silly articles. My mother used to say that teens are changelings: they look like your kid, but are unreasonable and awkward, and that, if you’re lucky, you get your kid back around 19 or so. Anyway, we do try to make sure that the kids know that all is not sunshine and lollipops.
Anyone making up such a stupid, null phrase such as this isn't researching anything serious at all.
I believe this. I just got back from a meeting of the CCD teachers at my church. We’re being assigned t-shirts with whistles on them and are to be called “team leaders”. UGH
Our director of religious education told us her daughter is no longer Catholic (why am I not surprised) and thinks we need to make classes “fun”.
I may not be a “fun” teacher but I will say our 6th grade class last year was ready to be treated seriously. Everyone of them was there to the last day.