Revolution: “A sudden or momentous change in a situation; to overthrow the current system for something radical and fresh.”
   Youth ministry needs a revolution. It needs to be overthrown, retooled and reborn. The majority of what passes as youth ministry is organized babysitting: songs, games, a short devo and pizza afterward…yippee!
    Mark Senter III wrote in The Coming Revolution in Youth Ministry that there is no way which the programs and youth ministry tactics currently being used will ever stem the moral tidal wave of corruption that has encompassed our teenagers. In his ground breaking book, Mr. Senter emphasizes again and again the urgent need for a fundamental transformation of the way that youth ministry is done in America. I agree with him. Do you?
    If you disagree with the radical assertion that the overall approach to youth ministry is a failed experiment, stop and think about three stark realities. According to Dr. Gary Railsback up to 50 percent of evangelical college freshman will forsake their Christian beliefs by their senior year of college. According to George Barna: 2 out of 3 Christian teens will leave the church after they graduate from high school; 63 percent of our teens don’t believe Jesus is the Son of the one true God; 58 percent believe all faiths teach equally valid truths; 51 percent don’t believe Jesus rose from the dead and 70 percent don’t believe an absolute moral truth exits.
    Not only are we failing to reach the non Christian teens in our culture, we are failing to reach the “Christian” teens in our youth groups. We all have bad, sad stories of teens who have forsaken their Christian roots for the tempting fruit of this world. We are not alone. Jesus had Judas. Paul had Demas. Who do you have?  

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