Title: Heart to Heart (3)
Series: Generational Discipleship
Author: James Merritt
Text: Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Introduction
1. According to the Harvard Business School any organization offering a product or service is in the business of solving problems. That's not just true about an organization, but that's true about life. Every life has problems. So often, the quality of life is dependent upon the ability to solve problems. Before you solve a problem and be willing to solve a problem three things have to happen. First of all, you've got to recognize there is a problem. That's just common sense. But then secondly, you've got to recognize what the problem exactly is. If you can't define the problem, you're not going to dispel the problem . Then, you won't solve the problem or try to solve the problem unless you believe it's a serious enough problem to be solved.
2. A teacher in a math class was training her kids on how to handle fractions and she was calling on different students to solve problems. She looked at one kid named William and she said, "William, What is three-fourths of five sixteenths?" He thought for a moment and said, "Well, Miss Smith, I don't know exactly what it is, but it's not enough to worry about."
3. Well, the church is facing a massive problem. The family is facing a massive problem. Christianity is facing a massive problem. Let me lay it out for you.
35 million youths raised in Christian families are projected to disaffiliate from Christianity by the year 2050.
Christianity in America will make up just 59% of the country's population by 2050 compared to 73% today.
Worst - case scenario...as many as 42 million people raised in Christian homes will disaffiliate from Christianity by 2050.
It is the largest and fastest numerical shift in religious affiliation in the history of this country.
Simply put we are losing the next generation.
4. That is why we are embarking on an effort in our church to begin to re ...
Series: Generational Discipleship
Author: James Merritt
Text: Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Introduction
1. According to the Harvard Business School any organization offering a product or service is in the business of solving problems. That's not just true about an organization, but that's true about life. Every life has problems. So often, the quality of life is dependent upon the ability to solve problems. Before you solve a problem and be willing to solve a problem three things have to happen. First of all, you've got to recognize there is a problem. That's just common sense. But then secondly, you've got to recognize what the problem exactly is. If you can't define the problem, you're not going to dispel the problem . Then, you won't solve the problem or try to solve the problem unless you believe it's a serious enough problem to be solved.
2. A teacher in a math class was training her kids on how to handle fractions and she was calling on different students to solve problems. She looked at one kid named William and she said, "William, What is three-fourths of five sixteenths?" He thought for a moment and said, "Well, Miss Smith, I don't know exactly what it is, but it's not enough to worry about."
3. Well, the church is facing a massive problem. The family is facing a massive problem. Christianity is facing a massive problem. Let me lay it out for you.
35 million youths raised in Christian families are projected to disaffiliate from Christianity by the year 2050.
Christianity in America will make up just 59% of the country's population by 2050 compared to 73% today.
Worst - case scenario...as many as 42 million people raised in Christian homes will disaffiliate from Christianity by 2050.
It is the largest and fastest numerical shift in religious affiliation in the history of this country.
Simply put we are losing the next generation.
4. That is why we are embarking on an effort in our church to begin to re ...
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