This section of the book is directed at youth ministry but is increasingly becoming standard fare as one generation fails to faithfully pass God's truth to the next.
It is claimed that in order to reach the young, we must imitate their world, speak their language, do what they do, and think what they think, which means jettisoning anything of the past not part of the context they are being sold at the mall and on YouTube. Teaching them to embrace a culture of the past is out. The only true rule is that by the systematic shedding of all rules and connection points with previous generations shall the next generation be able to learn the faith. If anything is difficult, strange, or boring, it is anathema. What matters is keeping their attention, and nothing grabs attention like breaking all the rules.
The results couldn't be more disastrous.… The faith once for all delivered to the saints has simply not been passed down to a super-majority of the upcoming generations, those very children who grew up under the super-tradition of getting rid of traditions.
It is claimed that in order to reach the young, we must imitate their world, speak their language, do what they do, and think what they think, which means jettisoning anything of the past not part of the context they are being sold at the mall and on YouTube. Teaching them to embrace a culture of the past is out. The only true rule is that by the systematic shedding of all rules and connection points with previous generations shall the next generation be able to learn the faith. If anything is difficult, strange, or boring, it is anathema. What matters is keeping their attention, and nothing grabs attention like breaking all the rules.
The results couldn't be more disastrous.… The faith once for all delivered to the saints has simply not been passed down to a super-majority of the upcoming generations, those very children who grew up under the super-tradition of getting rid of traditions.
Jonathan Fisk, Broken, 207
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It's called feeding them spiritual junk food. Not at all nutritious.
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