With the direction that our culture is going, it’s no surprise that students raised in a Christian home for most or all of their lives are leaving the faith once they go to college. Young people in the church have been told to “just have faith” their entire lives.
But what happens when social media provides them with what seems to be good reasons to believe that God doesn’t exist? Who will they listen to after a while? After all, most high school and college students spend more time on social media a week than they do at church. What’s going to happen when they don’t have the answers they need because their church told them that they shouldn’t ask questions? The responsibility to equip our students with answers to intellectually ground their faith falls on the church and the parents.
Today, Stand to Reason’s Tim Barnett joins the show once more, and we’ll discuss engaging the minds of our students, what that looks like, and some ways to start doing it, so parents, pastors, youth pastors, Sunday school teachers, and anyone who has some influence over students in our churches listen up because this one is for you.
In part 2, Tim will outline the TRAIN acronym that provides a system of training our students to prepare for this culture’s challenges to the faith.
Timestamps:
The problem of students leaving the faith (0:30)
We have to start early (2:54)
Top SIX reasons why students leave the faith (5:54)
How does Jesus respond when his people doubt? (10:59)
Teaching vs. Training (15:28)
How do we train instead of teach? (18:18)
Why is all of this relevant? (19:02)
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Additional Resources Mentioned (worth checking out!)
So the Next Generation Will Know by J. Warner Wallace and Sean McDowell
You Lost Me by David Kinnaman
Defending Christianity Podcast: https://www.defendingchristianitypodcast.org
DC Blog: https://defendingchristianityblog.org/blog/
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