A challenge to the church
Knowing teenager books and movies with supernatural themes currently sell in their millions, how does the church take the Gospel to the Harry Potter generation? Disturbing views of God and disturbing thoughts this media bring disturb my mind? Don’t say it…I have a mind
Has the Christian Church failed to offer spirituality that appeals to teenagers. Pagans fill a gap because they offer communication direct with Hollywood movie stars. The overwhelming popularity of television shows like Buffy, Sabrina and Harry Potter books show teens having fun, feuding, frolicking and their hip. This media offers questions kids need to deal with: good and evil, death and immortality, moral dilemmas. Christ is some old time religion riding on the backs of their “dead” parents.
You don’t agree? Think like me and be horrified! Teens look for some sign of a God who is interested in their lives. (remember it is you and I who are their Christ in the world). Since they don’t see a people interested in them why should they give their love to a church. We throw a few programs their way, offer platitudes that they are the future of the church and then we go on with our lives investing in our own reality.
The church has to sit up and realize that a full-scale propaganda war, a spiritual battle, all out warfare is taking place for hearts and minds. So let’s get bold with our faith, for our faith. We need to turn people back to the fact that there is a God who wants a relationship with them. We’ve got to turn our youth onto God. Our teen society may no longer be religious, but they are spiritual, and the desire to satisfy that part of our nature will go on forever. So, like selling any commodity, lets give teens what they want.
Any ideas on how to do that?
Has the Christian Church failed to offer spirituality that appeals to teenagers. Pagans fill a gap because they offer communication direct with Hollywood movie stars. The overwhelming popularity of television shows like Buffy, Sabrina and Harry Potter books show teens having fun, feuding, frolicking and their hip. This media offers questions kids need to deal with: good and evil, death and immortality, moral dilemmas. Christ is some old time religion riding on the backs of their “dead” parents.
You don’t agree? Think like me and be horrified! Teens look for some sign of a God who is interested in their lives. (remember it is you and I who are their Christ in the world). Since they don’t see a people interested in them why should they give their love to a church. We throw a few programs their way, offer platitudes that they are the future of the church and then we go on with our lives investing in our own reality.
The church has to sit up and realize that a full-scale propaganda war, a spiritual battle, all out warfare is taking place for hearts and minds. So let’s get bold with our faith, for our faith. We need to turn people back to the fact that there is a God who wants a relationship with them. We’ve got to turn our youth onto God. Our teen society may no longer be religious, but they are spiritual, and the desire to satisfy that part of our nature will go on forever. So, like selling any commodity, lets give teens what they want.
Any ideas on how to do that?
posted by qtip at 6:27 p.m.
1 Comments:
Christian discussions/Bible Study and prayer have been going on at my jr. high and highschool in Meadow Lake for a long time. It goes for a 1/2 hr during lunch time. It interests non-christian kids and builds a stong community of Christians who keep each other accountable to the faith. IT's up to the teens who go to church to bring it to their schools. We can also do it as adults but peers are more comfortable when you're just exploring something new.
thats my suggestion
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