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Ratio Update
We are well into our first semester with Ratio @ ECU. God has put together a wonderful Team!
With Noah Watkins who is from Central Church of Christ.
Our own Luke and Ally from Harmony.
We have had some very interesting conversations in our first few meetings.
Tackling a number of issues.
One that tends to come up a lot is the issue of morality and truth.
But one things that has stood out to me is that those that are engaging with the questions.
There is a genuine desire to seek.
Which gives me hope for the next generation.
When I started this role as the chapter director for RC one of the things God impressed upon my heart was to make it my main goals as been to do everything I can to try to understand the worldview younger generation.
Particularly those entering and leaving college.
Right now that is GenZ.
One of the slogans at Ratio is, “ as the university goes, so goes the rest of the world”.
And I think this is absolutely true.
And the long I am in this role the more I find myself trying to tap into their heads and their worldview.
Love Seeks Understanding
Knowledge helps us understand people, so we can better love them.
But knowledge is also power.
Josh McDowell often says, “A problem well defined is half-solved.”
Once we clearly understand the task at hand—by having the knowledge—we are in a much better position to find a reasonable solution.
First Chronicles 12:32 says this....
We have to meet people where they are.
But you have to first know WHO they are.
In other words, they had knowledge of the times in which they lived in order to act with wisdom.
Understanding the uniqueness of the next generation helps us love them, but it also helps us guide them appropriately according to knowledge.
Love and wisdom both require understanding.
When we truly love someone, we aim to understand that person.
The challenge is that it takes time and effort.
This is not only true for friends, neighbors, and coworkers, but it is especially true for the next generation of young people.
If we truly want to love them, we must make the commitment to understand them first.
Proverbs 24:3 says,
God’s wisdom is certainly required to build a lasting, healthy home.
But there must also be mutual understanding of one another.
If you want a home, team, or youth group with meaningful relationships, it must begin with understanding.
But which is more important?
To be understood?
Or to seek understanding?
I would contend that it is the latter.
The culture tends to emphasize an attitude of “ make your voice heard”.
I think that the Church can easily fall into this trap.
As Christians we want to make sure our position is heard and known!
But how much are we really listening to people and the culture to truly understand so we can better reach them.
It is no secret and I would also say no surprise that the younger generation is leaving the church in droves!
Why?.....Think about it for a moment.
Let’s use Movies as an example of how the last two generations have approached life.
Millennials-Harry Potter
GenZ-Hunger Games
So I want to maintain focus on GenZ.
Because this is the age entering college right now.
Now from a Christian perspective it’s no wonder they are leaving.
We've raised a generation that doesn't know how to navigate culture or the world from within their Christian faith.
We give them shallow answers.
It's emotion-filled.
Disconnect their faith from what it means to actually live.
And so, they go through the motions.
And then eventually, when they're really tested and get out of the home, it reveals the lack of a faith that was never there.
So I think there's this deep worldview component.
Some of this is apologetics.
Some of this is theology.
Some of it's just learning to think Christianly in a world that we can argue is increasingly non-Christian and post-Christian, and in some ways, anti-Christian based on what we believe.
The other side of that is there's also a huge relational piece, why young kids leave the faith.
The number one factor that would shape why a young person stays in the faith and-or leaves on the reverse, is a quote, "warm relationship with the father".
Now that's not to say the mother is unimportant.
Last I checked, when a kid is born, a mom is there.
The dad just tends to be more of the wild card.
That's reality.
But there's something powerful about relationships in the body of Christ but with a father and teaching kids how to navigate reality.
So if one or both of those are missing, the chances sky rocket that a kid is going to walk away from the church, and-or their faith.
How Well Do You Know Young People?
How well do you know the Gen Z people in your life?
How much have you interacted with them?[1]
Think of someone you know that you would say is a Gen Z.
What three or 4 words come to mind?
Now keep these words in mind as we actually list the some of the attributes of Gen Z.
Or what I would generally call the younger generation.
It is tempting to think that trends among Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1999) will apply to Gen Z.
While there are some similarities, this assumption is deeply flawed.
Some trends have carried over to the next generation, as we will see, but there are some stark differences too.
Here is the bottom line: if we are going to genuinely reach young people, we must have an accurate understanding of what they think, see, and how they feel about the world.
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Consider the defining events that characterize a generation.
For instance,
Baby Boomers (1946–1964)
The Vietnam War and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Gen Xers (1965–1980)
The Challenger explosion, fall of the Berlin Wall, and the AIDS crisis.
Millennials (1981–1999)
9/11.
These collective experiences deeply influence how members of each generation see their place in the world.[3]
Gen Z also has some collective experiences that help define them.
For instance, in many ways, Gen Z is a post-9/11 generation.
They are the first generation without any memory of September 11 and were raised in a world still coming to grips with the reality of terrorism and what that means for immigration, government oversight, and so on.
Older members of Gen Z will recall the economic crash of 2008 and natural disasters, such as earthquakes in Haiti.
Younger Gen Zers grew up practicing drills for the possibility of a school shooting.
Before we look at some unique factors about Gen Z, 1 let’s compare these insights to our own experiences for a little perspective:
• Ronald Reagan is as distant for them as Dwight Eisenhower was for their parents.
• Email is an antiquated and useless technology to them.
• YouTubers are the new stars.
• With map apps on their smartphones, they have never needed directions.
• They consider the bands Nirvana and Guns N’ Roses to be classic rock.
Times have clearly changed.
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