On The Importance Of Youth Ministry

15 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.
16 With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
18 So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
-Psa. 71:15-18

Today ministry to the youth, especially young children, is sorely neglected! And I hope that people who read this blog will get ideas to do in their own communities. The state of our youth today is horrible..! Sometimes I can't help but fall down to my knees and weep for these kids... So many of the kids live in broken homes, and they do not even see their parents except for more than a few hours in the evenings when their parents are home from work-- tired, and cranky! And to top it all off-- the State is raising our kids! They are in large a godless and idolatrous generation that does not know the stories of God and what He has done, and much less to actually know our God personally. The state of our public schools is pathetic, with education being dumbed down, and the (so-called) removal of God from our schools-- which means the teachers are only dispensing knowledge and facts, like a vending machine, without moral application. Since they have left God out of education, by logic they must leave moral application out-- which makes learning pointless, and so the schools are able to talk about all of the problems of society, but have no solution-- hence the drop-outs and kids who think "school is dumb!" This all leads up to a shocking condition of lawlessness among the kids. "Right" and "wrong" is defined by personal happiness, not God's Word-- resulting in a bunch of rebellious tyrants, to be the future of our self-destructing nation. Our kids need a right theology of God and a God-centered philosophy and world-view to be the foundation of all education.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.
-Pro. 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
-Pro. 9:10

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if this mess is a judgment of God upon our nation? I suppose the subject is beyond the scope of this blog, but I would say our nation is the biggest sin factory in the world, we even make other godless nations blush-- yet we have no shame. Now I don't think we were a chosen nation like Israel was, but we did have much light from God-- even our public schools were originally Christian schools, teaching from Bible. And the main purpose of our "ivory league" universities was once for the raising up of ministers. I'm praying for God to raise up a remnant of Christian youth with a faith like Daniel had amidst the empire.