I posted a question regarding 4% of this generation claiming...?

Question

to be Christian, by generation I mean teens in the US... Does it seem more logical of a number knowing the teens you may know..?
Christianity one generation away from extinction..?
WW2 generation - 65% claimed to being Christian
Baby Boomers - 34% claimed to be Bible believing Christians
Today's generatio (millanial) - 4% claim to be Bible believing Christians...This is very sad to me.. How can we reach out to a gereration which dosen't seem to care, about anything and shows no leadership or motivation...? Out of the teenagers that come to my house, not one is Christian...Is this how it was designed or can we do something..?

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by generation, I mean teens. I think you will find it easy to believe taht 4% of teens consider themselves Christian

Answer 1

I'll say the same thing I said before. I wish those numbers were true. They are not. I have no idea who they surveyed. I am guessing they made it up to scare people...and get an "help, help, we're being oppressed" response (which they got from you). You could survey teens at an atheist camp and you'd get more than %4.

PLEASE STOP WITH THE CULTURE OF VICTIMHOOD. Christians are the ones in this nation with the power. THey are the ones trying to force beliefs on others. They are the ones pushing their beliefs in school.

Something like %92 of all Americans believe in Angels. And about %50 actually think God made people 6000 years ago in one day. Those are the scary stats.

Answer 2

Whoever said 40% when was the last time you were in a high school? I think it might be a little higher, I mean battle cry has been publishing that statistic for a little over a year now.

But it seems very logical, I know lots of teens (being a college freshman helps), and in a school of little more four hundred I know only about 20 or 30 hardcore teens, which i know is higher than 4%,but my youth group is working hardcore so i kind of expect that my numbers would be a bit higher. In fact it was that 4% statistic that pushed the man who is/ was my youth pastor to quit working in the real world and to work with kids.

Answer 3

well, a few months back, CNN reported that in the USA, the Christian majority is at just over 81% - now I'm not sure if that was just a poll of adults, or what.

When my daughter was alive, she had friends who would come over, and it seemed like it was so much more cool to be a wiccan, or anything that would shock their parents. I do agree, though, that the numbers are dwindling - but what would we expect? God is being taken out of everything - even Christmas, if one can believe that. Also, homes consist of empty rooms when kids come home from school; mom is at work, so is dad if he is even still on the scene. They have no guidance, and many of them if anything are mad at God because their conditions are so bad - People in this generation had better wake the hell up.
The problem is, that you are not gonna get teenagers to come around to a belief in God with the tripe taught in the churches - if the particular church even bothers to actually teach anything.
Kids are very smart. When they hear nonsense like the rapture, where people just disappear out of cars and they crash on the roads, causing horrors, etc. - thats complete garbage, and Gods Word does not say any such thing - man says it.
So why should they listen to one lie, and then be expected to believe everything else they hear?? I don't even go to the churches and I've studied in the manuscripts for 35 years now.
Its just like the stupid commercials against drugs. They show an egg and say this is your brain, and then it is frying - this is your brain on drugs - well, kids know that two or three of their friends got high last night, and today they are just fine - so its marked as a lie, and they never listen to one word said ever again - in fact, its now a joke on a teeshirt. And no wonder.
If you lie to kids, don't expect them to listen. If they are told what is really written in Gods Word, it would excite the heck out of them, and they would want to know more, I promise you that.
If you want to know whats really said in the Word, feel free to email me at: [e-mail].
God Bless You.

Answer 4

In the area that I live in, most of the teens claim to be christians. I live in the South, and Christianity is very big here! I am an athiest, but all of my friends growing up at least believed in God. Teens may not want to be Christains (claim to be) because it is uncool and boring. CHristians have to practice abstinence before marriage, no drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes....that just does not follow the culture today. Most pepople who were raised in CHristain homes will revert back to Christianity eventually.

Answer 5

Why do you need to do anything? Can't you just let people believe whatever they want to believe, and leave it at that?

You imply that teenagers have no leadership skills or motivation unless they are Christians. Do you have any proof of these accusations? There are many teens involved in leadership roles in their schools, doing volunteer work, organizing charities and clubs, being involved in exchange student programs, etc., and not all of them are Christian. There are also plenty of Christian teens doing nothing useful at all with their lives.

Basically, Christians just need to learn to mind their own business. It isn't their problem if people don't believe exactly as they do, it isn't their business to change the world to suit their fantasies.

Answer 6

Do you mean that they aren't Christian and are of a different religion (such as Islam)? If so, don't worry, at least they follow SOMETHING. But if you mean that their family is Christian, but the teens don't think that, then worry. Though I don't think taht that is so surprising, considering the current public state of the Western World.

Answer 7

Prophecy is being fulfilled.
For a little while, it is going to seem as if the Christian church is dying...dwindling...finally, dead.
And the world will rejoice, sending one another presents, and patting themselves on the back, saying, "Yeah, we finally got rid of those pesky Christians and their preaching about the Son of God!"
But there's more to come, folks...so don't get too excited just yet...

Answer 8

I don't know whether or not the decline in the belief in Christianity is a good or a bad thing, but one thing is clear:
The proponents of Christianity have failed miserably in marketing their product.
In my opinion the aggressive nature of the Christian evangelist, the threats of eternal damnation, the homosexual scandals, the money-hungry and holier than thou attitude of of many of those publicly "selling" Christianity have all contributed to the downturn of the faith.

Answer 9

If you're talking about teens in America then no way is that statistic true.

I bet its more like 40% or even higher.

Where did you find this statistic? Independent site collating facts - or a fundamentalist propaganda group trying to scare ignorant people to preach their superstitious drivel even harder than before?

**I fear some atheists on here are taking that statistic seriously. Don't get your hopes up, people. Didn't anyone ever tell you that 88.2% of statistics are made up on the spot?**

You say out of the teenagers that come to your house not many are Christian? I dont know why that is - do you work in a brothel or opium den?

(lol - dont you drag quantum in to it JP - that was an old joke by a British comedian whose name escapes me right now.)

Answer 10

Could it be the current 'teens' see the (scriptural) tests that many 'adults' (in the USA) have not passed; therefore the teens do not listen to those adults on other scriptural matters? (Can we adults not the flaws in the form of many Christian denominations (division) currently in the USA?
May God give you a large pleasant surprise today to his glory!!!!