Summary: Please make sure and stop by our new Podcast site at godsmessageontheweb.com I want to share with you an insight, not a statement of confrontation or an argumentative statement, but an insight. We as adults are grieved deeply because so many of our teenagers leave the church when they become adults. Those of us who still have children at home are terrified that our children might decide to do the same thing in the years ahead. My insight: our children do not see us using the light God gives through Jesus to fight the darkness inside ourselves. We have focused so much energy on fighting the "darkness out yonder" that we individually do not even look at the darkness within ourselves. When something forces us to peek at the darkness in our own lives, we are far more likely to justify the darkness than we are to use Jesus' light to attack the darkness inside. And our children see it and know it; they hear us tell everybody else how to fight the darkness out yonder, and they see us unable to shine the light on our own personal darkness. So when they confront the darkness in their own lives, they have absolutely no idea of how to fight it, and the church as they know it suddenly becomes very irrelevant in the battle against personal darkness. Please make sure and stop by our new Podcast site at godsmessageontheweb.com God's Message - The Darkness Within.
