Is modern youth ministry multiplying or dividing our Lord's church? Find out in this awesome documentary, which you can watch for free, thanks to Generation Cedar!
Click here to watch: http://dividedthemovie.com/kelly-crawford
As you look on the church landscape, youth are leaving the faith in droves. The modern church, overall, is struggling to reach the next generation with the gospel. What has happened? Whether for good or bad, men, for many years, have been inventing solutions or brainstorming ideas without fully relying upon the foundation of God’s Word. God, however, is greater than man, and as the heavens are above the earth, so are His ways higher than ours and His thoughts than our thoughts (Is. 55:8-9). We have substituted the greater for the lesser – God’s wisdom for man’s ideas. Jesus said that he who hears His Word and does it, is like a man that built his house upon a rock, and when the storm came, it stood firm. On the other hand, he who rejects His Word, is like a man who built on the sand and when the storm came, the house fell (Matt. 7:24-25). Shouldn’t the church, as a whole, abandon the sandy ideas of man and shamelessly return to the firm rock of the Word of God? God’s Word sufficiently identifies how youth are to be reached. For more information on this issue, please see the film Divided, which is a documentary on age-segregated youth ministry in America. Watch it for free (for a limited time) atwww.dividedthemovie.com. For an in-depth study, the book A Weed in the Church delves into the topic and more thoroughly handles the Scripture passages that address ministry to young people. For other details or to help spread the message, visit www.dividedthemovie.com.
After watching, let me know what you think in the comments!
2 thoughts shared:
Thank you for sharing this, just finished and really enjoyed it! I really enjoyed the history lesson part of the movement, that was really interesting. These are things that we have been convicted of ourselves over the past few years with our children. Actually we began to keep our children with us during church about five years ago, then when we moved and found a new church they already keep all the children with them (its a super small home church), so that has been nice. Even though we have not been faithfully going since our two year old has been so challenging to last out for the three hours at church! But its a goal to get him trained so that we can eventually. Anyways, thank you...I'm forwarding it to others!
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. My husband and I have always discussed wanting to experience worship as a family and our desire to teach our children about God rather than sending them to Sunday school, but always felt like that was abnormal. This film definitely strengthened our desire for family worship and showed us the biblical basis for it. We do not have any children yet, despite our best efforts, but I hope that some day God will open my womb and bless us with a large family. I hope you are doing well and learning to lean on God through your struggles with infertility.
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