In October, one national newspaper headline declared: ‘Generation Y has no use for God’. The piece said that religion is irrelevant to most young people. Quoting a study published by the Church of England, it explained that youngsters rely on themselves, their family and friends rather than God to give meaning to their lives.
John Benton
Presumably the church is meant to be worried, to wring its hands and to question how it can become more relevant to those born after 1982. But if the apostle Paul saw that headline would he react in quite that way? I think not. In fact I can imagine him smiling and asking, ‘So what’s new?’ He not only taught us that the world by its wisdom does not know God, but that to the person without the Spirit the gospel is foolishness.
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Irrelevant God?
In October, one national newspaper headline declared: ‘Generation Y has no use for God’. The piece said that religion is irrelevant to most young people. Quoting a study published by the Church of England, it explained that youngsters rely on themselves, their family and friends rather than God to give meaning to their lives.
Presumably the church is meant to be worried, to wring its hands and to question how it can become more relevant to those born after 1982. But if the apostle Paul saw that headline would he react in quite that way? I think not. In fact I can imagine him smiling and asking, ‘So what’s new?’ He not only taught us that the world by its wisdom does not know God, but that to the person without the Spirit the gospel is foolishness.
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