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Where Have All the Young People Gone - Revised (Paperback)
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Where Have All the Young People Gone - Revised (Paperback)
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Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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Description of "Where have all the Young People Gone" By R.
Channing Johnson Today's younger and older folk have grown up in
different worlds and are different people. Communications between
generations is often painful. The older folk tend to be church
people. Generations X and Y are not: perhaps 90 percent of them
have written off Christianity as irrelevant. To explain what has
happened, the first part of this book looks at our history since
1945. You may have lived through these events but will be surprised
by the results. If you are younger, you'll see the events that have
shaped you and most of your friends. All readers will see changes
in family and community that have produced four different
generations in America today. And you will become familiar with the
distinct characteristics of each generation. Once you understand
how we got the way we are, the book turns to what can we do about
it. The distinctive learning style of Generations X and Y is to
learn by their experiences and how they interpret them. Don't try
to tell them what is right or truth. That shuts down communication.
Rather, share the experiences that have shaped your life. For a
Christian, that is the experiences by which the Lord has shaped you
into a person of faith. It's not what you have done but what the
Lord has done that is your story. Outreach by a greying
congregation to young families and individuals may be far tougher.
There is a table of 26 factors to evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of your congregation. Then there is the missionary
problem. The foreign missionary has to learn a new language and get
used to a new culture. Can your congregation make the adaptive
changes required to speak and live the Gospel in order to welcome a
people of the culture of Generations X and Y into your midst? In
offering the Gospel to an alienated generation, you yourselves will
be changed. Is that too frightening? Are you willing?
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