Why is the world so appealing?!

[Marcus2Israel]

In my church the majority of teens have gone over to the world, and no one seems to care neither do they say anything to them. These teens have been in church all their lives and wouldn't have been so corrupted had it not been for the couple parents who let their teens into the world and do whatever they want and they of course spread it to the others. There are currently about 2 or 3 teens who have any heart for God the other ones blindly serve a religion rather than having a relationship. It's sad and i've been saddened by it many a time and whats even sadder is that the parents are so apathetic about it. I've heard this is common and I don't get it, the world is appealing but cmon' shouldn't you be able to understand it's evil when you get preached at about it constantly and even more so after you have wandered for a while like they have? I don't know... Just wanted to post this.

[Guest Guest]

I've wondered the same thing, Marcus. Also, as you get older, you never stop wondering why others wander off into sin like that....

The world makes itself look so attractive and sparkly, and it makes the Christian life look plain and boring. I guess most teens don't have the wisdom to see beyond the temporal, and consider the future. It's so obvious, watching celebrities and people that live the "best" of this world that the world has nothing to offer but temporal happiness. Most teens just don't see it.

[Samer]

There's always 1 John 2:15... "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." Some of them may just need to get saved. The rest, I suppose, will get their chastisement in due time.

[ZacharyW]

When I was at my old school (I homeschool now), a lot of the kids who claimed to be Christians seemed to be a bit worldly. We need to pray for those sort of teens/Christians/people. :pray

[Ashlee]

I can kind of sympathize with you, but in my church the ones who seem worldly are the minority, i'm happy to say. :smile
There are still ones you want to smack sometimes, and tell them, this is wrong, but that's only two or three, out of twenty or so.

[SimplyComplex]

There's always 1 John 2:15... "If any man love the world' date=' the love of the Father is not in him." Some of them may just need to get saved. The rest, I suppose, will get their chastisement in due time.[/quote']

That was going to be my first answer... sometimes its because they're not saved...

sometimes (this is more rare IMO and I try to say it carefully...) they've started doing things you might consider worldly that really aren't'... they're just things you don't think they should do but not something the Bible actually says.

Just something to think about.

[Anon]

I think one of the biggest things is that some of the worst teens have parents that are "good Christians". A teen will look at that and say "They are good Christians and they think its ok, so my parents/pastor must be awfully stiff to not agree with that."

Thank God right now we have some GOOD teens in our church, although the group is small right now. One teen in particular feels called to full time ministry, and his parents/family has actually left our church over the fact that they don't want to be seperated from the world (rock music, worldly dress, etc). This teen boy now comes alone to our church faithfully while his family go to a different area church. God will do great things with this boy who is willing to stand up for God against his family.

We are lucky because we have just hired a youth pastor last year and the youth group was started from scratch...so hopefully and prayerfully, the kids will be raised up in the right environment and the bad weeded out regularly enough to where the good seeds can grow semi protected. Our youth pastor is right now working on the "little kids" to groom them up so when they are in the youth group they are ready to be leaders (by example).

[Kayla]

I never had a youth group.

[Marcus2Israel]

I never had a youth group.

:uuhm: Really?

[Kayla]

Nope, my church in it's 35 years of existance has never had a youth pastor.

[SimplyComplex]

Nope' date=' my church in it's 35 years of existance has never had a youth pastor.[/quote']

in some ways its probably better for it

[Anon]

Definitely if you have one, you have to do it right.

[Kayla]

Definitely if you have one' date=' you have to do it right.[/quote']
So very true

[Ashlee]

i dont know if we have a "youth pastor" per say, but we do have a couple who is in charge of all the teens like in sunday school and for camp and such.

[Kayla]

I was reading in Proverbs 30 this morning and I thought about this thread here's what the passage says:

11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Sounds like our generation pay attention especially to verse 12, "pure in their own eyes"