Isn’t she lovely…most likely not within her heart and mind where it counts according to the most recent George Barna intensive study…

 

I heard it said, always without thought behind it, always without finishing the sentence, “Children are our future…”

And every time I heard someone say that ignorant thing I finished the sentence with, “…and oh what a future it’s going to be!”

As in the end of the world as it has been known future. Coming soon to a planet near you!

For the past few decades now there hasn’t been a child born that is not “gifted” or “amazingly talented” or “going to change the world,” or “smarter than any other generation before!”

Right.

Gifted in being spoiled, selfish, ignorant, self-absorbed, more easily influenced and manipulated than previous generations and refusing the truth, unlike any previous generation. Thinking they know it all and convinced of that error. Oh, I know most young people growing up believe they know better, know more — but they learn in time. Such is not the case with young people growing up over the past 20, 30 years.

My generation was the 60s. A turbulent and revolting revolutionary time indeed, but nothing like what has transpired in the past 20, 30 years. We may have thought older people could not be trusted, as was a cliched ignorant slogan from the era, of don’t trust anyone over 30 — but unlike the current lot we weren’t openly shouting and declaring on a very unsocial, uncivilized so-called social media that the world would get better when all the old people die and we could then finally have the world we wanted and deserved. Something that was written and screamed in text form on a regular basis until comments were removed from articles and items online.

Yeah, young people are the future.

But finish the thought. Finish the sentence. Most don’t. Why? Because it scares the feces outta them, truth be told if they have their eyes and ears open and look around and see and know the reality of the majority of young people. The propaganda on TV, in the media, doesn’t hold up about how gifted, special, wonderful, innocent, and pure they all are.

Too many as in Portland, Oregon, and much fewer selling lemonade and cookies to help someone in need out these days.

And most important of all? Most telling and vital of all?

They do not believe in God. They do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. They do not believe in the Holy Spirit. They do not believe in the Holy Scriptures.

Why? Because contrary to the 60s song by Crosby, Stills, and Nash parents didn’t teach their children well.

They taught them the lies and deceptions of the world over the truth of God, the Lord Jesus, and the Holy Bible.

And look at the future the young people have wrought on our world…and those who were supposed to rear them properly and well permitting them everything and anything they wanted, pitched a fit for and demanded. Refusing to say no, refusing to teach them to pray, teach them of God and Jesus, and the Word of God.

 

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children— how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’

Deuteronomy 4:9-10 — English Standard Version

 

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 4:5-9 — English Standard Version

 

“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

Deuteronomy 11:18-23 — English Standard Version

 

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

Proverbs 22:6 — English Standard Version

 

Foolishness is bound to the heart of a youth; a rod of discipline will separate it from him.

Proverbs 22:15 — Christian Standard Bible

 

Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Proverbs 29:17 — English Standard Version

 

Children are our future…

…and, oh, what a (present it is due to that errant unfinished worldly thinking) and future it’ll be!

Unlike anything the world has ever witnessed before in all of history, or ever shall witness.

Truly teach your children well. In the ways and words of the Lord. In the ways and words of the Holy Bible. All of them. Adding or omitting nothing. Not being selective. Teach your children well while you can dear ones in the way of the Lord, upon the Rock!

 

Ken Pullen

Friday, October 2nd, 2020

ACP — A Crooked Path

 

‘Profoundly Disturbing’: Survey Finds Only 2 Percent of Millennials Have Biblical Worldview

 

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Reprinted from Christian News Network

 

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The tenth installation of the nationwide “American Worldview” survey conducted by Dr. George Barna and the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found that most Millennials don’t have a biblical worldview: They are less likely to believe in absolute truth, to value the sanctity of human life or trust the Bible as the inerrant word of God.

“We’ve always sensed that the culture has been pulling the next generation away from biblical values and truths many were raised with,” university President Len Munsil said in a statement. “This study is more confirmation, and illustrates the necessity of preparing young Christians with a heart to transform their generation with biblical truth.”

As previously reported, the Center surveyed 2,000 adults at random in January for its American Worldview Inventory study, interviewing those of all ages, ethnicities, beliefs and political persuasions on the telephone or online. It found a significant difference between the beliefs of Millennials (those ages 18-36) and those of Generation X (ages 37-55) and Baby Boomers (ages 56-74).

“For instance, Millennials are 15 percentage points less likely than Gen Xers to say they treat other people the same way they want to be treated, and are 28 points less likely than Baby Boomers to embrace that approach (known to Christians as the ‘Golden Rule’),” the study states.

And despite trumpeting tolerance, Millennials were admittedly less tolerant of those who are different than themselves.

“Further, Millennials also stood out as the generation that is most likely to acknowledge that they are ‘committed to getting even’ with those who wrong them — in fact, 28 percentage points more likely than Baby Boomers to hold a vengeful point of view,” the Center explains.

They additionally less than half as likely to believe that life is sacred but more apt to hold to the view that humans are just “material substance only” or their life as “an illusion.”

While 61% of Millennials surveyed identified as Christian, their held beliefs differed from other generations in that only 18% believe that the purpose of life is to know, love and serve God, 28% accept the Bible as the inerrant word of God and 31% agree that God is the basis of all truth.

Yet, 60% agreed with the statement, “God loves me unconditionally.”

“[T]he faith gap between Millennials and their predecessors (i.e., Gen X and Boomers) is the widest intergenerational difference identified at any time in the last seven decades,” the Center advised, citing “significant differences” between Millennials and Baby Boomers in 48 of the 56 variables studied.

Read the study in full here.

“These profiles are profoundly disturbing,” Barna remarked in a statement. “The significantly divergent worldview perspectives and applications of the four generations—especially how different the Millennials are from all of their predecessors — suggests a nation that is at war with itself to adopt new values, lifestyles, and a new identity.”

“In other words, there is a war for worldview dominance. But, as the Scriptures remind us, a nation at war with itself cannot persist.”

1 Timothy 4:12 states, “Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”

Psalm 119:9 also teaches, “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy word.”

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