Facts Are Stubborn Things
Much of today’s beliefs about religion in the founding of this country is based on modern opinion rather than actual historical fact!
John Adams, our second president and a founding father observed: “Facts are stubborn things!” I couldn’t agree more.
Check the “facts” and you’ll discover the religious nature of our American founding is definitely NOT secular or Godless. John Adams summarized what previous generations of Americans knew and believed. He said: “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were . . . the general principles of Christianity . . . these general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
I could give you quote after quote. The historical evidence was so clear that both religious and NON-religious leaders in early America agreed that America was founded on biblical and Christian—that is, Judeo-Christian, principles!
(From This Precarious Moment/Biblically Founded Nation section)
Praise and Positive Feedback
We demand less from young people, expect less and then blame them when they make mistakes as adults!
Young people today respond to a world that gives them trophies just for showing up. They’re used to being rewarded and praised, regardless of their behavior and performance.
Successful leaders motivate young people, not through criticism but through deserved praise and positive feedback. Millennials are generally moved by emotion and heart rather than numbers, facts, or even what we present as “truth.” What you’ll discover is that they’re motivated and open to change through relationships. And that opens a door for you as a mentor and a model to them.
Become friends with young people. Invest in their lives. You’re up against a culture that has dismally failed them, and as a result failed an entire nation.
(From This Precarious Moment/Millennial section)
Don’t Become Weary in Doing Good
Millennials tend to be obsessed with two words from the Bible: “Judge not,” and that “judging” other people is one of the greatest of human evils!
You can’t change indoctrinated minds in one conversation!
It will require being intentional, spending time sharing your life experiences and your insights with the young people in your sphere of influence.
In Galatians 6:9, Paul says: “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Changing “group think” will require us to do what Jesus did. He spent one-on-one time with those he was mentoring. Ultimately it was that smaller group of disciples that Jesus personally mentored, who changed the known world.
The bottom line is that millennials are a very reachable generation—one by one, over time!
(From This Precarious Moment/Millennials section)
Actions AND Words
Your kids and grandkids won’t adopt a biblical stance on marriage if you’re not first modeling it for them!
If you want to change a person’s perspective on marriage, don’t TELL them—SHOW them what biblical marriage looks like!
What it looks like to have someone faithfully loving and supporting you, cheering for your success, helping you accomplish what God has called and gifted you to do and be.
Many of today’s millennials are convinced marriage is unnecessary. They’ve been taught by society that the need for marriage is a thing of the past. We’re in a precarious moment in our history!
Your part, my part, is to LIVE a biblical worldview on marriage.
There ARE times when actions speak louder than words—and this is one of them! Do BOTH but don’t let your actions contradict your words!
(From This Precarious Moment/Millennials section)
Modeling Biblical Marriage
We need to teach our young people how to “judge a tree by its fruit!”—how to engage in behavior that has positive and PROVEN outcomes!
We need to promote biblical values about intimacy inside marriage that is between one man and one woman!
As a group, millennials are, by far, the most biblically-illiterate generation in American history—with only four percent having a biblical worldview. In the generation that raised them, only ten percent of Christians overall express a biblical worldview! That being the case, what do you expect?
Young people need to see YOU keeping your marriage as a primary focus in your life, they need to see you reading and studying the Bible, living by it, modeling for them what a biblical worldview looks like!
This is a precarious moment in our history!
(From This Precarious Moment/Millennials section)
A Hostile Education
I’m concerned that present-day education emphasizes indoctrination over analytical thinking—and is hostile to biblical values!
The Bible provides wisdom in Proverbs 15:1, that “The first to put forth his case seems right, until someone else steps forward and cross-examines him.”
And young people today rarely get the other side of anything in their education. Too many professors teach today’s millennials that anyone holding an opinion different from what they’ve heard is intolerant and should be rejected out of hand.
Decades ago, Martin Luther King warned, that if we’re not careful our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts.” This is a precarious moment in our history—no question! As parents, it’s time to put our foot down on the amount of education money we’re spending to destroy the next generations!
(From This Precarious Moment/Millennials section)
