Each summer, I have the opportunity to serve the next generation of leaders, missionaries and committed church members at youth camps in Wales and Romania. What I have observed recently is a growth in an almost puritanical movement within our youth.
As I teach the Bible and engage with Gen Z and Gen Alpha*, I am encouraged by their deep commitment to Jesus and their desire to live authentic holy lives. They have all grown up in a post-Christian secular society, saturated with sexual ideology and they are seeking refuge. I see a counter-culture that is being refined by secularism, calling a new generation back to holy living.
Gen Z and Gen Alpha appear to be serious about the Bible’s teaching: they are determined to stand for traditional values, they are applauded for embracing their biologically given gender, and they are saving themselves for marriage. Celibacy is being celebrated.
Too Reformed for some, too liberal for others...
This summer, I have enjoyed my first sabbatical after 13 years of ministry. I am deeply thankful to my church …