Nothing is more important than this. The church’s first mission field has to be its own children. Lose that battle and nothing else much matters.
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That needs to be repeated, and repeated, and repeated,,,and,,,shouted from the roof tops!
You hit on the bottomline..Lose your own kids, your culture dies. I had no idea Baptists were losing this many to the world. We have seminary and 2 year missions, but the world can still steal a significant percentage. Peer groups drag most kids down along with the Godless system of education.