Why are so many young people falling away from the faith?

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Why are so many young people falling away from the faith? We're going to answer that question.

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Not every child who starts out in church stays in church. In fact, many young people are falling away from the faith and walking away from the church as they grow older.

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A recent survey conducted by the Barna Group found that less than 1 % of the young adult population in the

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United States has a biblical worldview, that being defined as belief that absolute moral truth exists.

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The Bible is completely inerrant. Satan is a real being, not symbolic.

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A person cannot earn his way into the kingdom of God through good works. Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth.

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God is the supreme creator of the heavens and the earth and reigns over the whole universe today.

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Another study by the Fuller Seminary also looked at the issue and determined that the most important factor is if young people have a home or a church youth group to express their doubts and concerns regarding their faith before adulthood.

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The Fuller study also found that most church youth programs tend to focus on providing entertainment and pizza rather than building up young people in their faith.

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As a result, teens are ill -equipped to face the challenges they will encounter upon leaving home.

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One of the key reasons that nearly 75 % of Christian young people fall away is intellectual skepticism.

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But how many of these youth were actually taught the Bible in their homes or in church? Statistics show that children today spend an average of 30 hours per week in school and 30 hours per week in front of a television or connecting on social media.

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This is in contrast to the time spent weekly in the church classroom, 45 minutes.

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Given the amount of exposure to worldly influences versus the Bible training, it's understandable why young people don't have a biblical worldview.

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Young people are also not being taught to intelligently examine the views of skeptics who will inevitably challenge their faith.

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Most of these students are not prepared to enter the college classroom where more than half of all college professors will belittle and challenge their faith.

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A key factor in keeping young people from falling away from their faith is the influence of their parents.

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Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not turn from it. One particular study found that when both parents were faithful and active in the church, 93 % of their children remained faithful.

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When just one parent was faithful, 73 % remained faithful. When neither parent was particularly active in church, only 53 % of the children stayed faithful.

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Relativism and skepticism are commonly seen as enlightened positions in our society.

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Teenagers should be able to walk away from the home without falling away from the faith. They must be fully trained in how to respond to their unsaved friends.

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They should be ready to give a reason for the hope that is within them. The fact that so many young people are falling away from their faith should concern every

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Christian family and every church. It's not enough to blame the secularization of society or the increased biblical illiteracy of the world in general.

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Churches need to take a hard look at their youth programs. Instead of entertaining youth, we need to teach them to have a

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Christian worldview. Charles Spurgeon was way ahead of his time when he implored the church to start feeding the sheep rather than amusing the goats.

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