The real difficulty in youth ministry is seeing young people you knew change...and not for the better. You lose touch at some point and then reconnect to find an atheist, buddhist, or some other blasphemous "ist". It can be disheartening no matter how many of the kids you taught that grew up to be followers of Christ. I know that sounds bad but its true. It's certainly not a devaluing of those who are real Christians but a real struggle with seeing people dishonor Christ when they've been blessed to be taught God's word. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, this falling away is good for the church (in that it removes a false believer) and helps mature God's minister but its still a shock when you get hit in the face with it. Its also infuriating to see them fall to such foolish philosophies and ideas; ideas that you and every other Christian has dealt with for years.
Synergists take note: The only comfort through this sort of thing is God's sovereignty. Feeling beaten up by worldly philosophies has only one antidote and its not "human free will". My God is having His way and will always have His way! Soli Deo gloria!
I am the Lord, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; 6That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other, 7The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these. --Isaiah 45:5-7
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