THE DEATH OF THE CROSS
Sep 28th, 2007 by unityarp
Philippians 2:8 09/09/07
An interesting book was published a couple of years ago titled Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. This book uses data from a comprehensive, in-depth survey of American teens to evaluate their spiritual lives. The survey found that the vast majority of American teens identified themselves as Christians. This sounds like good news until you begin to dig deeper to explore the teens’ understanding of their faith. According to the book, while most teenagers talked about sin or being a sinner, very few mentioned the need for repentance, and not one of them mentioned the need for justification or sanctification. The author, Christian Smith, concludes that the de facto dominant religion among American teens is what he calls “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.”
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