As I was listening to Thursday's edition of Crosstalk, "Exodus Mandate Project", I was struck with an ominous statistic;
"Sadly, Moore reports that within the category of public school children that are evangelical and from Bible based families, 70-80% of them are abandoning the church early in their adult years."
70 - 80%.............that's unbelievable............but true. I would encourage every parent to listen to this 50 minute radio broadcast.
One of the areas in "preparing" to stand, is making sure our children and grandchildren have a fighting chance before they are faced with the onslaught of the enemy. Sending "truly BORN AGAIN Christian children" into the government school system is cruel enough when they are young, but subjecting them to the higher education "elite" is a travesty if you don't give them everything possible to "stand firm" in Jesus while attending those Godless institutions. And I do mean GOD-less.
There is a ministry that is designed to help students in this crucial time of life. It is called RECON, a ministry to connect Christian students with mentors who can help keep them spiritually fit for the battle. We are instructed to be "wise as serpents & gentle as doves";
Matthew 10:16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. NASB
If you keep this verse in context you will see that Jesus is giving instructions to His disciples before sending them out into a world that was going to eat them alive.......for His name's sake. Before you send your child out into the "higher education world" to be eaten alive......give them some weapons they can use to fight against being one of those 70 - 80%.
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At our small church, we have thought that it was so important for our young people to "know what they believe and why they believe" before heading out into the world, that we fund every one who wants to go to Summit Ministries summer worldview conference. It is a very intense 2-week experience that all of our young people have really appreciated. You can check it out at http://www.summit.org/. They also have other materials you can use at home to help study and be able to withstand the wiles of the enemy.
Thanks April, Summit is an excellent resource ministry.
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