By Julaine Appling, WiFamilyCouncil.org
In a recent conversation with a Wisconsin youth pastor, one of our team members asked what kinds of questions teens are asking today. This youth pastor said, “They are questioning whether God is real — and if He is real, is He really a good God and worth the price that, in their opinion, they are having to pay to follow Him.” He elaborated about these teens, most of whom come from middle to upper-middle-class Christian homes and go to public schools: “Their peers see Christianity as anti — anti just about everything. They view Christians as hateful, bigoted, homophobic and discriminatory, in addition to backwards and ignorant. That’s hard for kids to take.”
There’s a lot in this youth pastor’s response to think about and pay attention to; but given where we are in the year in Wisconsin, it’s important to explore one of my first reactions to this information.
Among my first reactions was to say for starters parents need to get their kids out of public schools. Public schools today do absolutely nothing to encourage Christian kids; to the contrary, they much too often indoctrinate kids with liberal, unbiblical ideas from the youngest grades up. If Christianity is mentioned, it’s most likely in a negative, derogatory way which feeds the idea that being a Christian is reprehensible and even dangerous for society. Christians are made to ...
