When it’s “rock on!” with buildings populated with weak in the Word pastors and adults [here’s a helpful hint — it helps to read the Holy Bible, meditate upon it, know it, and live it out], how is it to be expected that young people are being fed spiritually as needed? When it is pretenders to the faith in homes, in what passes for families, what passes for being a disciple of the LORD Jesus Christ in these times, how is it to be expected that young people are being fed, provided the living testimony and examples needed?
Churches, pastors, and adults have bowed to the world in appeasement. Attempting to please children rather than the LORD.
Worship music has radically changed, and not for the better. Messages from pulpits have radically changed, and not for the better. People have radically changed, and not for the better. It’s now show up, make an appearance, be entertained, and then skeedaddle out of the parking lot into the world until the next Sunday morning, most arriving late, most daydreaming during the weak, watered down, feel good worldly messages and music.
And this is according to the Word of God to build disciples? Strong church leaders well grounded and f0unded in the Word? To lead others to the LORD?
When the majority standing up on stages spewing, don’t believe the words in the Holy Bible?
Appeasement and applauding, approving of the ways of the world, incorporating, allowing the world in to such a degree have all but suffocated the truth, the light, and the way to life.
“For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
Jude 1:4
This exhortation is to all who profess faith in the LORD Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiac, not only to pastors:
“I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”
2 Timothy 4:1-5
Such are our times. The last of the last days.
Wake up, pastors, church leaders, parents, Sunday school teachers, and adults professing faith.
I hear continually the lament of parents and grandparents, all but gnashing their teeth regarding where their offspring or grandchildren will reside for eternity, while most remain more mired, tethered to this world and its ways and lies than they are firmly grounded in the Word of God living it out.
Each successive generation has been bowed to as if they are gods, princes, and princesses; whatever whim, demand, or protestation the children have offered up in their wailing the parent, the adults have bowed to them. Being led by children rather than leading the children.
More a desire to be a buddy, a friend, than a teacher in the ways they ought to be raised up in. Placing priority on the child’s every desire, comfort, shielding from reality, appeasing their every plea.
Rather than raising them up, teaching them in the ways of the LORD and the whole Word of God.
Then the wailing and laments of the parents, the adults wondering why the child, now older, has rebelled and gone deep into the world.
Is it any wonder?
Really?
It isn’t “rock on,” making people feel good and be entertained, fearful of speaking, preaching the whole Word and truth that is the way to go — it’s upon The Rock that a solid foundation is built.
It’s a question of do you truly believe the whole Holy Bible, parents, preachers, and professed believers? What do you truly believe, because by our fruits we are known.
Worshipping children and appeasing everything to their desire isn’t what works. Discover this truth while there is still time. Because time is swiftly running out for this world as it has been known for these thousands of years. There aren’t many days remaining as it has been.
Read on…
Ken Pullen, Monday, June 23rd, 2025
A Failed Worldly ‘Strategy’: Shallow Entertainment And Compromise Isn’t Keeping Young People In Churches
June 23, 2025
By Ken Ham
Reprinted from Harbinger’s Daily
I’ve often shared the statistic that two-thirds of young people will leave the church by the time they reach college age—and very few return. I was reminded of this recently when I saw a post someone shared on social media that said:
“Fact: 70–88% of youth born in evangelical homes leave the faith after one year in a secular college. Maybe. Just maybe. We start to focus on more doctrine, more ability to explain what and why they believe, and less performance, less trend, less show, less entertainment.”
Now, I’ve basically been saying the same thing for years—decades! There’s been such a focus in American churches on entertaining young people so they’ll want to come to church and very little emphasis on doctrine, theology, apologetics, and the gospel.
So many young people grow up with a shallow faith, no answers to the skeptical questions of our day, and a worldview foundation that says man determines truth (the same foundation our culture has).
But what’s ironic is that when I speak to young people, I find they are so hungry for answers! They love the rich and authoritative teaching from God’s Word. They’re tired of the shallow entertainment they’ve been fed—they want “meat”!
Biblical worldview teaching is incredibly important, both in the home and in the church. Remember, fathers, it’s your responsibility to train your children in the admonition of the Lord and not ultimately the church’s responsibility! Don’t neglect it in your home! Remember that money, status, sports achievements, and everything else fades away—but our children have eternal souls that will live forever.
