Today’s Youth Seek the Truth
February 14, 2011 by Admin
Filed under Church, The Walk, Youth & Young Adult
You can tell me I need to do better, but if you don’t show me better, I will do what I know! Teens have a tendency to do what they know. If they see violence at home, in the movies, in video games, or on the street, they are more inclined to copy such behaviors. Studies show that you typically model what they see. Pastor Tamara Bennett of TIP Ministries shares with Gospel Today what today’s youth want and what tomorrow’s youth need.
“We have to provide this generation with a clear definition and example of what Is pure and acceptable to God. They have to hear it, through an uncompromising gospel of truth and love; they have to see It by the lives we live as fathers, husbands, mothers and wives; and they have to understand It by the example of leaders that guard and value their anointing. Without this formula and mechanism within the body of Christ, they will continue to be seduced and persuaded by the wickedness, perversion and over advertised lasciviousness of this world. So, to turn the heads of this generation in the right direction, It will take the pain of the truth that their ways have been wrong.
It Is not only the teaching and exhortation of sound doctrine that will help a person gain their own understanding of the spirit of perversion, uncleanness and lasciviousness, but It’s an avenue of ‘good old fashioned’ prayers and crying out to God for the cleansing of the heart and soul.
The church must create an environment that will allow individuals to grow, be trained, nurtured, Instructed and loved unconditionally. The functioning of the Holy Ghost to minister specifically to the spirit of homosexuality and other sexual sins Is essential, because It takes a heavy anointing to destroy this yoke as opposed to provoking and angering It.â€
Pastor Bennett please continue to be the pure and true woman of God. God has called and made you to be….
Excellent Article. Let me just add a caveat. Parents stop coming to church acting like you love Jesus and go home and do those things of the world. As a youth minister, I have discovered that my youth sees their parents as hypocrites. You have fathers that call there daughters out of their names, you have mothers that abuse their sons by saying they will not amount to anything.
Children need stability, love, and consistency. The church cannot uplift the children of God, if the parents are tearing them down.
Pastor Bennett, I am one that is for nuturing youth in the church, but often I have seen many youth, including me, hurt because of phony people. When I was sixteen and joined the church, I was so eager to be in the house of the Lord. I wanted to sing, be in the youth drama team, and lead prayer, so many things. My world came tumbling down when I found out that I wasn’t part of the click! Everybody that was active was the same young people. they didn’t even want to hear anything you have to say unless you were apart of the click. I was treated like garbage and at such an early age! Many of the youth left and went to the street because they experienced the same hurt! Before the church can nuture anyone, including babes in Christ, we need to change the minds of the people in the congregation. If we are going to truly welcome people into the house, do it with unconditional love and respect. Don’t judge them by how much money they give in offering, or who they are related to in the leadership. It is time for the church to stop playing these dangerous games! I do not feel that this is elementary school.. where I have to kiss-up to the popular crowd in order for me to feel comfortable.
i really love this article. i’m the youth leader of a church organization and it inspired me as well as brought of feelings that i have about the position im in and the direction in which i want to go, so i thank you and encourage you to keep up the great work of god.