Haydn Shaw

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How do I pass on my faith to my children when they don’t respond to the things I find most meaningful about my faith? And what can I do now that my child is walking away from the faith? Two out of every three youth group graduates will drop out of church for at least a year between 18 and 23. One third will leave the faith and not come back. But there’s some amazing research that shows us what works and what pushes young people away.

Is it even possible for young people to save sex for marriage when they don’t marry until age twenty-eight?

Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation Xers, and Millennials--we can’t relate to, love on, get along with, or most importantly reach and minister to other generations as well unless we understand their inherent spiritual strengths and vulnerabilities. Even more importantly, millions from each of the generations stay spiritually stuck because they to understand the temptations to which they are particularly vulnerable. Here are the spiritual temptations I address.

• Traditionalists: purposeless retirement and past over future orientation.

• Baby Boomers: giving psychology greater regard than Scripture for help in living daily life and church hopping.

• Gen Xers: cynicism and believing the philosophy “it may be true for you, but it’s not true for me”.

• Millennials: misapplying “judge not” in the name of diversity and the over focus on the kingdom of God at the expense of the church.

With Pew’s major report about the Nones all over the news and again on the front cover of USA Today yesterday, the people of faith are worried. And that leads to a bunker mentality or panic. It’s the question I get asked question most often and it opens wonderful conversations for what Christians can do in a pluralistic world where we no longer have home-field advantage.