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?
The better question is: why does the Christian message fail to resonate? Not just with our kids, but with the world at large?
Is it really a failure of the Message? Or is it instead a failure of the messenger? Are we perhaps focusing on things other than what Jesus Christ would have said and done?
I’m worried that my high school aged son will not go to church in college. However, I think he will end up going to church when he has kids.
I also think he will send his kids to a private Christian school. He attends a private Christian high school, and he loves it. He hated the public middle school that he attended.
My daughters attended a private Christian school for 4-6 grades. They transferred to another Christian school (my son’s) for 7th. They said the new school was better about applying Biblical principals to everyday life. The Bible was not just stories at the new school.
I wish my son had gone to the Christian school for middle school. I think public middle school poisoned him spiritually.