Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Is God in the hearts of this Generation?

I recently sat down with a group of Sunday School youth, in a church, ranging from 13-17 years old. I got them into a circle of chairs and grabbed a piece of paper and asked them to describe what is important to them as a generation. I told them this list, was going to be the voice of their generation, for the future generation, to read and get a glimpse into what was important to them. The list included very obvious things like: Ipods, cell phones, text messaging, my space, XBox, Halo, Shoes and many more things. Though these are Sunday School youth, in a church, who have alot of youth oriented programs, interestingly, they failed to make any mention of the church, God, christianity or the Bible. Is it that this generation finds it difficult to truly be sold out for Christ or are they too distracted, or maybe just misunderstood. Maybe they have a passion for Gods stuff, but they express it differently from previous generations. What is it? What is the true voice of this generation in relationship to God's things. Let your voice be heard, no matter which generation you represent today. Is God in the hearts of this Generation?