Convicted Living and the Next Generation
I am surrounded by young people. I have three of my own. I teach 6th and 8th-grade students at a private middle school full time. I hang out with 20 somethings on a regular basis in my spare time. Needless to say, I have many people from the younger generations that filter through my life from week to week, and I am learning much from them. One of the great needs I see as I hang out with these individuals is the need for them to develop their own convictions based on God's Word. They are in the process of making their faith their own and need encouragement to not base their beliefs on what they have been told, but on what God's Word actually says. For instance, Can they find a verse on a topic when they are struggling? Do they know how to go to the Scripture and search out what is troubling them to find answers? Do they believe God is who He says He is? Will they take that Bible with them and open it for answers, direction, and protection when they go to college or s