Do Parents Equip Their Kids or Do Youth Groups?

Many studies have been conducted, but all conclude, we are losing a generation of students to the false religions of this world, including the religion of “religiously unaffiliated,” and the only people we can point a finger at is ourselves.

We could of course get into 1 John 2:19, but the focus today is not on why so-called believers “fall away,” but instead, lets look at where we lose our students.  What is the main contributing factor to our kids deciding to forsake their beliefs and go a different way?

Children Are Born Evil

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Before deciding to try and have kids, I must admit, I was afraid.  Not of being a parent, but of bringing a child into this world that we know is only going to get worse and worse and worse until at last, Christ calls us home.  I feared what all could possibly happen to me or my child in that in-between time.  My Dad told me this though…”All life is a gift.”  That did it for me.

If you were to survey people right now about having children, they might tell you that they are reluctant about having children, not because children are born evil, but because it’s expensive.