{"id":307275,"date":"2021-10-27T07:01:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/faith-isnt-a-formula\/"},"modified":"2021-10-27T07:01:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T11:01:06","slug":"faith-isnt-a-formula","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/faith-isnt-a-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Isn&#8217;t a Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What makes some young adults resilient in the faith, while others walk away completely? Pastor Mark Matlock and researcher David Kinnaman talk about the five characteristics and practices of resilient Christians: experiencing Jesus; forging meaningful, intergenerational relationships; developing cultural discernment; training for vocational discipleship; and engaging in counter-cultural mission.<br \/>\nShow Notes and Resources<\/p>\n<p> \tTake your marriage from good to great with these free resources.\u00a0 https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/good-contest\/<br \/>\n \tFind resources from this podcast at https:\/\/shop.familylife.com\/Products.aspx?categoryid=95.<br \/>\n \tCheck out all that&#8217;s available on the FamilyLife Podcast Network.\u00a0 https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/familylife-podcast-network\/<br \/>\n \tHave the FamilyLife Today\u00ae podcast and resources helped you?\u00a0 Consider becoming a Legacy Partner, a monthly supporter of FamilyLife.\u00a0https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/legacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes some young adults resilient in the faith, while others walk away completely? 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Author and researcher, David Kinnaman, says there is no recipe for success.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>What we learned over, and over, and over is that faith isn\u2019t a formula. It is being led, as parents, by the Holy Spirit. We did learn some practices, but you can\u2019t boil a faith down to a simple set of: \u201cDo this twice a week, and these conversations, and everything\u2019s going to turn out right.\u201d\n\nIn fact, every story is unique; every heart\/every soul is unique. I think we have to honor that first and foremost. Each young person\u2014God\u2019s speaking into their heart\u2014and sometimes their hearts become hardened for reasons that we can\u2019t control, and we shouldn\u2019t try to control those.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, August 5<sup>th<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I'm Bob Lepine. You\u2019ll find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. While there\u2019s no recipe for raising kids, who walk faithfully with Christ, there are some best practices that we can consider, and learn from, and maybe adapt in our own families. We\u2019ll explore that today. Stay with us.\n\nAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I\u2019ve shared this before, but I feel like it needs to be said over and over again. Third John 4 says, \u201cI have no greater joy than to know that my children are walking in the truth.\u201d Now, John is talking about his spiritual children when he writes that; but if that\u2019s the case for spiritual children, how much more for our biological children\u2014no greater joy for a parent than to know that your kids are walking in the truth.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Why do you think that brings us so much joy?\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Because we know that that\u2019s where life is and where hope is.\n\nI\u2019ve asked parents: \u201cIf you could imagine that your child is 30 years old, and they write a letter home and they say: \u2018The job\u2019s doing great; I\u2019m making good money. All of this is going on\u2026We\u2019re not going to church anymore, but we were able to take the vacation and have this\u2026\u2019 and \u2018The kids have all of this stuff\u2026\u2019 and \u2018We\u2019re happy, and life\u2019s good,\u2019\u2014you get that letter from one child. The other child writes home and says, \u2018It\u2019s been a rough month; we were barely able to make the bills. But you know what? God has us, and we\u2019re hanging in.\u2019 Which child are you going to feel happier about?\u201d\n\nIt\u2019s because we know that second kid is where God has him. The first kid is dealing with his own success and self-reliance, and that\u2019s not going to take him anywhere.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Living for temporal versus eternal.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>If there\u2019s no greater joy than to know your children are walking in the truth, then there\u2019s probably no greater fear or pain for a parent than to imagine that your child would not be, at some point, walking in the faith.\n\nWe have a couple of guys joining us this week to help us understand the culture in which we live\u2014the pressures on our kids\/our young adult kids\u2014as they enter into what you guys refer to as the \u201cdigital Babylon.\u201d David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock are joining us again; guys, welcome back.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>It\u2019s a pleasure; thanks!\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Yes, thanks for having us!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>David and Mark have written a book called <em>Faith for Exiles: 5 Ways for a New Generation to Follow Jesus in Digital Babylon<\/em>.\n\nDavid, who is joining us remotely from Southern California, from the offices of the Barna Group, gives leadership to the Barna group, which has been doing research in the Christian world\/the Christian space for decades. Mark is a pastor, a church leader, worked with youth for years in his local church; he\u2019s a researcher as well.\n\nWe\u2019ve talked about the realities of the culture in which our kids are living: about the screens and the influence of being discipled by your screen instead of discipled by your father, or your youth pastor, or the Christian community. We\u2019ve talked about the fact that some kids end up as prodigals; some kids end up as vaguely spiritual nomads\u2014not going to church\u2014but still hanging onto some spiritual vestige; a lot of kids wind up as what you call \u201chabituals,\u201d who are going to church and going through the motions, but we really wonder how tethered to the faith they are.\n\nThen there\u2019s this ten percent\u2014this one in ten\u2014who are resilient. Their faith is alive, and they\u2019re on fire, and they\u2019re excited, and they want to tell other people about Jesus, and they really believe it. Every parent is saying: \u201cWhat\u2019s the recipe for that?\u2014okay? What are the ingredients I pour in? What\u2019s the temperature I bake it at?\u2014because I want to make sure all of my kids are that.\u201d\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Well, one of the things to keep in mind is we wish it were that easy to find the right temperature, the right ingredients, the right combination; but what we learned over, and over, and over is that faith isn\u2019t a formula. It is being led, as parents, by the Holy Spirit. We did learn some practices\u2014and we\u2019ll tell you about those\u2014but the first principle that we\u2019ve really seen in this is that you can\u2019t boil a faith down to a simple set of: \u201cDo this twice a week, and these conversations, and everything\u2019s going to turn out right.\u201d\n\nIn fact, that\u2019s part of the premise of our research over the last decade or more. I wrote a book called <em>UnChristian<\/em>, another book called <em>You Lost Me<\/em>, that were really about the problems and obstacles. I\u2019ve spent a bunch of years\u2014hundreds of thousands of interviews\u2014with young people, who have walked away from faith, or who are growing in faith. Faith is not a formula. Every story is unique; every heart\/every soul is unique. I think we have to honor that first and foremost. Each young person\u2014God\u2019s speaking into their heart\u2014and sometimes their hearts become hardened for reasons that we can\u2019t control, and we shouldn\u2019t try to control those.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>If you are a church leader or a youth worker, I want to encourage you\u2014that this\n\n38 percent that are the habituals that we talk about\u2014we really want to focus these practices on them. They\u2019re really the opportunity that we have. We spend a lot of energy worrying about those that are already walking away. We have a real opportunity that are coming into our programs\/that are welcoming us in right now; those are the groups that we need to really be looking at with these five practices.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Let me explain the background behind the research first, and then I\u2019ll have Mark describe these five practices. As I\u2019ve said, we\u2019ve been studying all the disconnections among young people\u2014the reason that young people walk away from faith\u2014for a long time; but we really wanted to understand what helps connect these ten percent, who are most resilient.\n\nAgain, we put people in different buckets; we analyze the data. We interviewed nearly 1500 individuals across those 4 groups that we\u2019ve been talking about this week. What we did was\u2014we really wanted to isolate: \u201cWhat are the practices that make a difference with those resilient disciples?\u201d These aren\u2019t formulas; but they are guidelines and guardrails for us, parents, to pursue.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Alright; what are they, Mark?\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Okay, we\u2019re going to give these to you in a very high-level way. It\u2019s important that you understand the context for that\u2014that these are big ideas\u2014but it\u2019s the detail underneath them is really where you start seeing the work.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Okay, parents, get ready!\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>The first thing is: \u201cExperiencing Jesus\u201d\u2014this idea that I\u2019m clearing away the clutter\/the religious clutter that exists in the world today and in the church to really meet with Christ.\n\n\u201cMeaningful Relationships\u201d\u2014I\u2019m around people that I enjoy being with and I aspire to become.\n\n\u201cCultural Discernment\u201d\u2014this idea that I can apply the Word of God to the world around me and navigate it\/make sense of it.\n\n\u201cVocational Discipleship\u201d\u2014this idea that my work is a part of the way I express my faith and live it out.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>There\u2019s not a disconnect between what I do 9-5 and who I am as a Christian.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Correct; it\u2019s not compartmentalized; it\u2019s an extension of who God\u2019s called me to be.\n\nThen, \u201cCountercultural Mission\u201d\u2014this idea that I know that I, as a Christian, am going to be living counter to the ways of this world; and that sometimes calls me to take epic moments of trust, where I trust in God rather than the conventions of this world for the good around me.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That list of five is powerful. Your book, <em>Faith for Exiles<\/em>\u2014that\u2019s the heart of the book\u2014is to talk about these five things. Go back to the first one\u2014the \u201cExperiencing Jesus.\u201d Are we talking about a phenomenal logical experience?\u2014are we talking about there needs to be a Spirit in the room that we\u2019re aware of?\u2014or what does the \u201cExperience of Jesus\u201d mean?\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>One of the interesting things that we did\u2014it was one of the first things I did when I get the raw data back is\u2014as I was looking through, I wanted to find out: \u201cWhat is the age that these different groups are saying that they consciously became a Christian\/that moment that they knew they were a Christian?\u201d What was really interesting\u2014is that resilients mark that age a little bit later in their childhood than the prodigals and the nomads, by about six years.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>What\u2019s going on?\u2014because, when I read that in your book, that jumped off the page.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It did! It\u2019s not what you hear: \u201cThe younger the better!\u201d\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>\u201cThe younger the better.\u201d Obviously\u2014I gave my life to Christ just before the age of five, and it stuck\u2014so there\u2019s no reason to doubt younger conversions. But I think we need to allow God to work in the lives of our children, and not try to force something to happen; because what we can see here is that we can actually socialize our kids to Christianity rather than actually helping them experience Jesus.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>That\u2019s where I think, if you notice these five factors working together\u2014just as you said, Bob, that if a person has an experience of Jesus but they don\u2019t have the mind of cultural discernment, or they don\u2019t work out their faith through vocational discipleship, or it\u2019s not alive in their relationships, or it\u2019s not sacrificial in terms of countercultural mission\u2014these five things really work well together; they have to work together\u2014our life with Christ and our relationship upwards, our relationship with others, our relationship of our heart and our mind and the work of our hands, and then our work in the world.\n\nAll five of these areas\u2014what we find is that people that are deficient in more than all five of them are deficient in their faith. It\u2019s not a test that we give them; but that if our faith in Christ doesn\u2019t work itself out in how we relate to others, how we think about the world, how we think about our work, how we think about our mission, then it\u2019s not the kind of Christianity that anyone wants to follow. I think that\u2019s what many young people are rejecting\u2014is these sort of half-hearted, one-dimensional forms of faith\u2014\u201cYes, I follow Jesus; I gave my life to Him, but nothing else really changed. Nothing else was really asked of me by the church.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Well, our kids prayed prayers when they were little; and we were talking about baptizing them, because they said, \u201cWe\u2019d like to get baptized.\u201d But Dave was like, \u201cYou know, let\u2019s just disciple them and wait,\u201d until, as they get baptized, like, \u201cThis is meaningful; we want to do this. This is our own faith; this isn\u2019t our parents; this is us.\u201d\n\nAt first, I was like, \u201cWhat? This isn\u2019t good!\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>No, she was all over me. [Laughter] \u201cLet\u2019s go! Let\u2019s get them baptized! They showed some interest!\u201d Again, I was like, \u201cLet\u2019s let it be their decision.\u201d Then it didn\u2019t happen for years and years; and then they go to Israel or somewhere, and come back and say, \u201cWe got baptized!\u201d\u2014which was great.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>I think what you\u2019ve just modeled there and described is very healthy, but the right kind of tension for parents to have\u2014you know, if you\u2019re in a single-parent home, the sense that you\u2019re trying to push your kids into the category of being Christian\u2014that\u2019s the thing we\u2019re learning so much with this generation.\n\nA lot of research that we\u2019re now seeing is that they don\u2019t want to be emotionally manipulated. In fact, one of the things that\u2019s really heartbreaking for me, as a researcher, is to hear the stories of young people, who say, \u201cYes, I made this weird commitment at a camp,\u201d\u2014or in an environment\u2014\u201cand I feel like, as I look back now, five years ago or ten years ago, is that they set these conditions in which my heart was going to be manipulated towards a certain decision.\u201d\n\nWe have to be really careful; this is a lifetime decision. I really applaud you guys for working that out in your relationship with your kids; even though it\u2019s hard for us, as parents, because we want to tip the kids into the Christian camp\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014out of fear, sometimes.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>That\u2019s right!\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Absolutely out of fear.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>How many of us have heard somebody share their testimony, as an adult, and they would say, \u201cWell, I prayed a prayer when I was six, but\u2026\u201d\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Exactly!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Then they go on to talk about a time, later in life, when their faith really became alive for them. What was going on spiritually?\u2014and if they had died, from one point to the other\u2014what\u2019s the truth? I won\u2019t get into that, because I don\u2019t know the mind of God. Only God knows the heart of a child, but I do know that what we want is we want there to be an alive faith in a child.\n\nI remember a guest on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, who said, \u201cThe same five-year-old, who says, \u2018I want to ask Jesus in my heart,\u2019\u2014says\u2014\u2018And when I grow up, I want to be a dinosaur,\u2019\u201d\u2014right? As a five-year-old, that\u2019s how you\u2019re thinking.\n\nNow, it could be, as it was for you, Mark, a genuine profession. One of our kids prayed at the age of four and walked with Jesus the rest of her life; right? We\u2019ve seen that happen. But there are a lot of kids, who pray the prayer at four; and when they\u2019re in junior high, they\u2019re not sure that that means anything to them anymore.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Let me give you an example of how differently these resilients and habituals are experiencing Jesus, just by the numbers.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Okay.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Remember, each one of these numbers represents a life that God loves, so it\u2019s really important that we understand that. But when we talk about those resilients\u2014we ask them: \u201cI believe living in relationship with Jesus is the only way to find fulfillment in life.\u201d Ninety percent of resilients said, \u201cThat\u2019s true for me.\u201d Only 49 percent of habituals said that was true for them, and 21 percent of nomads. You see the difference in terms of their experience of Jesus.\n\n\u201cMy relationship with Jesus brings me deep joy and satisfaction.\u201d Ninety percent of resilients; forty-eight percent of habituals\u2014so half\u2014this isn\u2019t like resilients are seven percent more. In almost every situation, it\u2019s double-digit percentage points differences between resilients\u2019 experience and the habituals\u2019 experience.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You talked about meaningful relationships being key. We\u2019re probably not going to be able to dive into all five of these\u2014and this is where people can get your book, <em>Faith for Exiles<\/em>, and look deeply at this\u2014but I remember when my kids were growing up, I used to say to them, \u201cI want you to identify somebody, who is five to ten years older than you, who you would look at and say, \u2018I would like my life to look like their life when I\u2019m their age,\u2019 and then figure out how they got to where they are.\u201d I was conscious of the fact that they needed some modeling, and they needed some people who cared about them, beyond Mom and me\u2014people who they could point to and say, \u201cYes, this is what I\u2019m growing for.\u201d\n\nWhen we\u2019re talking about meaningful relationships, role modeling is a part of that; isn\u2019t it?\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>It\u2019s a <em>huge<\/em> part of it. I think one of the most practical things that moms and dads can do out of this\u2014because you can\u2019t make your kids connect to Jesus; you know, you can provide an environment for that\u2014but the one thing you can do is invite others\/men and women into your home and surround your kids with these great examples and relationships.\n\nOne of the things that we found\u2014by, once again, wide margins\u2014is that resilients had much stronger relationships. They had people that were adults in their lives that they felt were investing in them; they had people that they felt they could be honest with about their spiritual journey; they had people that they admired in their church that they wanted to be like, just like what you suggested\u2014by almost 40 to 50 percentage points difference between the habituals in those situations. Huge difference, relationally.\n\nWhen I hear pastors say, \u201cHey, our church is all about relationships,\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cShow me how you\u2019re really connecting those younger people to those older people.\u201d That\u2019s something that moms and dads do. You know, we don\u2019t invite people over to our homes anymore; we don\u2019t have those things. That\u2019s where I really got to know the men and women in our church, and they invested in me and helped me <em>think<\/em> about my life spiritually. Even when some of them went off the rails, I saw the grace of God in their lives. I think that\u2019s a really important thing that we can\u2019t discount. Invite somebody over to your house this week\u2014a mature believer into your house this week\u2014that\u2019ll be your first step in helping your children.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>We actually see some really interesting social data now where young people are more likely to show trust and affinity with their peers or with people online. In fact, they trust a YouTube channel more than they would trust their youth pastor. So having other people around us and around our kids\u2014who can help them understand what it means to follow Christ; who love them; and love Jesus as much as we do; who don\u2019t have the same sort of weird motivations, perhaps, about getting them to be a Christian\u2014actually helps to cut through that clutter.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You know, as I think about my three sons, now married, and grandkids\u2014their faith\u2014I think I\u2019d put them in the resilient. It\u2019s as much because of Dave and Ann as it is Rob, Frank, Ryan, John, Craig, and Dave. Those men poured into them in high school; and even now, as they\u2019re in their 30s, they\u2019re still pouring into them. They found that.\n\nYou guys said it\u2014it\u2019s so critical that somebody else\u2014and some of these guys were my age. It isn\u2019t just that they\u2019re cool, and hip, and their age; no, they\u2019re living it in front of them; they\u2019re pouring into them and mentoring them. You can\u2019t devalue that; that is critical.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>It\u2019s interesting, when we look at younger stories\u2014like on Nickelodeon<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or Disney<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or whatever\u2014almost always the parent or one parent is absent. The writer of <em>Hannah Montana<\/em>, in an interview, was talking about the fact that the reason they do this is because it creates more tension for character to develop in the story, not having those parents present or in the storyline.\n\nYou start going, \u201cWhoa, this is weird! Why is this?\u201d It\u2019s a part of the storytelling narrative; when our kids are going through those formational years, we are symbolically dead as parents; right?\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>That\u2019s depressing. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Yes; we may be speaking truth into their life\u2014you know, I was kind of called the teen whisperer at church\u2014people would be like, \u201cOh, you\u2019re going to have an <em>easy<\/em> time with your kids\u201d; I\u2019m like, \u201cBut I\u2019m the <em>parent<\/em> of my kids.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>There\u2019s kind of a different role that\u2019s played there. I realized, as we went through that phase, I needed the men and women of the church to be there\u2014to be those people, speaking into their life\u2014when the truth that I was speaking, they weren\u2019t hearing it. I was symbolically dead to them; I think there\u2019s something about that.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>How lucky are we that our kids have us as parents, because we have all the answers. [Laughter] We have the PowerPoint slides and the research to prove how they should be raised.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This goes back, David, to where we started, which is: \u201cThere is no formula.\u201d\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>There is no formula!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>The salvation of a child is a work of God in that child\u2019s life, and there\u2019s\u2014\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Get on your knees and pray.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014there is <em>nothing<\/em> you can do to make your child a Christian.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>And there is no timeline for it. I think that\u2019s the important thing\u2014is we need to be patient and allow God to work in their lives.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>We don\u2019t want our kids to go through pain. We really don\u2019t, because we have gone through it; and yet, sometimes, pain is the thing that has drawn us to Jesus.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; we\u2019re telling a lot of parents of prodigals and nomads: \u201cTheir story\u2019s not over yet.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cnot over.\u201d\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>That\u2019s why we call them prodigals.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cYou keep praying, and you keep seeking the Lord about what your interaction with them looks like; and you pray for God to bring somebody into their life, who\u2019s going to be revolutionary to help point them to the truth.\u201d\n\nI just hope moms and dads will catch a vision for what you\u2019ve outlined in this book; because again, while it\u2019s not a recipe, it is a road map for the things we can do to help stack the deck\u2014and that\u2019s to point our kids: to an authentic relationship with Jesus; to meaningful relationships with others; to understand, \u201cYou\u2019re going to face cultural headwinds, and here\u2019s what it looks like to live counter-culturally in the midst of a culture that\u2019s going in a different direction\u201d; \u201cHere\u2019s what it looks like for your work to be meaningful as you live it out\u201d; and \u201cHere\u2019s what it looks like to be on mission and to have God\u2019s purposes at the center of your life.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Get the book; it\u2019s going to change you.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We\u2019re excited about the work you guys have done and want to share this book with our listeners. Thank you guys for being on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. David, thanks for joining us remotely here.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes, my pleasure; thanks for having me.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Yes, thank you so much for having us.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>David and Mark\u2019s book is called <em>Faith for Exiles<\/em>; and you can order your copy, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to get a copy of the book. Again, the title is <em>Faith for Exiles: 5 Ways for a New Generation to Follow Jesus in Digital Babylon<\/em>, by David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock. Order from us at FamilyLifeToday.com, or call to order: 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\nYou know, looking at the decline of spiritual interest in our culture can be discouraging. David Robbins, who\u2019s the president of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, is here with us today. Do you see reason for hope?\n\n<strong>David R.: <\/strong>Absolutely. My primary reason for hope is that I know our faithful God, who will continue to reveal Himself to the rising generation.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>David R.: <\/strong>But then, I also have a profound hope that\u2014though young people are not living as a cultural majority as Christians, that I got to enjoy, growing up\u2014those who are resilient disciples of Jesus can be a prophetic minority in this day. I have lived in some secular places, like New York City and western Europe, and those who follow Jesus in those places shine like the stars. You don\u2019t do it because you are supposed to do it; you do it because you are emblazoned with passion for Jesus.\n\nMy word to you, as parents and grandparents, would be to believe in your kids and believe in the next generation. Keep interceding for them and keep investing in them. Learn from them as they learn from you. The beauty is that Christ is in them, the hope of glory, and our kids know it\u2019s a complex world that they face and that they\u2019re navigating. They understand the need for a wholistic, integrated, deep faith that speaks to all of life. God\u2019s kingdom will continue to expand generation after generation through them. So please join us at FamilyLife of being a part of pouring into the next generation and platforming the next generation of Christ-followers with us.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, thank you to those regular listeners, who partner with us in this ministry\u2014help us reach hundreds of thousands of people every day with practical biblical help and hope for their marriage\/for their family\u2014your investment in this ministry is really an investment in the lives of so many couples\/so many parents. We\u2019re working hard to effectively develop godly marriages and families, and you help make that happen.\n\nIn fact, we would love this month to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d for any financial support you can provide for the ministry. We have copies of my new book, which is called <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em>. It\u2019s all about understanding a biblical definition of love in marriage rather than focusing on a cultural definition or a superficial definition of love. That book is our thank-you gift when you make a donation today. You can do that, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call to donate: 1-800-FL-TODAY is the number.\n\nWe are so grateful for those of you who have stood with us in the past. Again, if you can help with a donation today, we\u2019d love to hear from you. Thanks, in advance, for whatever you\u2019re able to do.\n\nNow, tomorrow, we want to talk about how moms and dads can raise daughters, who are strong, and confident, and courageous. What does that look like? Terra Mattson\u2019s going to join us to help with that. I hope you can tune in and be a part of that conversation.\n\nI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?\n\nCopyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2020 FamilyLife. 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makes some young adults resilient in the faith, while others walk away completely? Mark Matlock and David Kinnaman talk about the five characteristics and practices of resilient Christians.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/fl2020-08-05.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>All of us, as parents, will do whatever we need to do to help our children grow up walking in the truth\/walking in faith. Author and researcher, David Kinnaman, says there is no recipe for success.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>What we learned over, and over, and over is that faith isn\u2019t a formula. It is being led, as parents, by the Holy Spirit. We did learn some practices, but you can\u2019t boil a faith down to a simple set of: \u201cDo this twice a week, and these conversations, and everything\u2019s going to turn out right.\u201d\n\nIn fact, every story is unique; every heart\/every soul is unique. I think we have to honor that first and foremost. Each young person\u2014God\u2019s speaking into their heart\u2014and sometimes their hearts become hardened for reasons that we can\u2019t control, and we shouldn\u2019t try to control those.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, August 5<sup>th<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I'm Bob Lepine. You\u2019ll find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. While there\u2019s no recipe for raising kids, who walk faithfully with Christ, there are some best practices that we can consider, and learn from, and maybe adapt in our own families. We\u2019ll explore that today. Stay with us.\n\nAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I\u2019ve shared this before, but I feel like it needs to be said over and over again. Third John 4 says, \u201cI have no greater joy than to know that my children are walking in the truth.\u201d Now, John is talking about his spiritual children when he writes that; but if that\u2019s the case for spiritual children, how much more for our biological children\u2014no greater joy for a parent than to know that your kids are walking in the truth.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Why do you think that brings us so much joy?\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Because we know that that\u2019s where life is and where hope is.\n\nI\u2019ve asked parents: \u201cIf you could imagine that your child is 30 years old, and they write a letter home and they say: \u2018The job\u2019s doing great; I\u2019m making good money. All of this is going on\u2026We\u2019re not going to church anymore, but we were able to take the vacation and have this\u2026\u2019 and \u2018The kids have all of this stuff\u2026\u2019 and \u2018We\u2019re happy, and life\u2019s good,\u2019\u2014you get that letter from one child. The other child writes home and says, \u2018It\u2019s been a rough month; we were barely able to make the bills. But you know what? God has us, and we\u2019re hanging in.\u2019 Which child are you going to feel happier about?\u201d\n\nIt\u2019s because we know that second kid is where God has him. The first kid is dealing with his own success and self-reliance, and that\u2019s not going to take him anywhere.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Living for temporal versus eternal.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>If there\u2019s no greater joy than to know your children are walking in the truth, then there\u2019s probably no greater fear or pain for a parent than to imagine that your child would not be, at some point, walking in the faith.\n\nWe have a couple of guys joining us this week to help us understand the culture in which we live\u2014the pressures on our kids\/our young adult kids\u2014as they enter into what you guys refer to as the \u201cdigital Babylon.\u201d David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock are joining us again; guys, welcome back.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>It\u2019s a pleasure; thanks!\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Yes, thanks for having us!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>David and Mark have written a book called <em>Faith for Exiles: 5 Ways for a New Generation to Follow Jesus in Digital Babylon<\/em>.\n\nDavid, who is joining us remotely from Southern California, from the offices of the Barna Group, gives leadership to the Barna group, which has been doing research in the Christian world\/the Christian space for decades. Mark is a pastor, a church leader, worked with youth for years in his local church; he\u2019s a researcher as well.\n\nWe\u2019ve talked about the realities of the culture in which our kids are living: about the screens and the influence of being discipled by your screen instead of discipled by your father, or your youth pastor, or the Christian community. We\u2019ve talked about the fact that some kids end up as prodigals; some kids end up as vaguely spiritual nomads\u2014not going to church\u2014but still hanging onto some spiritual vestige; a lot of kids wind up as what you call \u201chabituals,\u201d who are going to church and going through the motions, but we really wonder how tethered to the faith they are.\n\nThen there\u2019s this ten percent\u2014this one in ten\u2014who are resilient. Their faith is alive, and they\u2019re on fire, and they\u2019re excited, and they want to tell other people about Jesus, and they really believe it. Every parent is saying: \u201cWhat\u2019s the recipe for that?\u2014okay? What are the ingredients I pour in? What\u2019s the temperature I bake it at?\u2014because I want to make sure all of my kids are that.\u201d\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Well, one of the things to keep in mind is we wish it were that easy to find the right temperature, the right ingredients, the right combination; but what we learned over, and over, and over is that faith isn\u2019t a formula. It is being led, as parents, by the Holy Spirit. We did learn some practices\u2014and we\u2019ll tell you about those\u2014but the first principle that we\u2019ve really seen in this is that you can\u2019t boil a faith down to a simple set of: \u201cDo this twice a week, and these conversations, and everything\u2019s going to turn out right.\u201d\n\nIn fact, that\u2019s part of the premise of our research over the last decade or more. I wrote a book called <em>UnChristian<\/em>, another book called <em>You Lost Me<\/em>, that were really about the problems and obstacles. I\u2019ve spent a bunch of years\u2014hundreds of thousands of interviews\u2014with young people, who have walked away from faith, or who are growing in faith. Faith is not a formula. Every story is unique; every heart\/every soul is unique. I think we have to honor that first and foremost. Each young person\u2014God\u2019s speaking into their heart\u2014and sometimes their hearts become hardened for reasons that we can\u2019t control, and we shouldn\u2019t try to control those.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>If you are a church leader or a youth worker, I want to encourage you\u2014that this\n\n38 percent that are the habituals that we talk about\u2014we really want to focus these practices on them. They\u2019re really the opportunity that we have. We spend a lot of energy worrying about those that are already walking away. We have a real opportunity that are coming into our programs\/that are welcoming us in right now; those are the groups that we need to really be looking at with these five practices.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Let me explain the background behind the research first, and then I\u2019ll have Mark describe these five practices. As I\u2019ve said, we\u2019ve been studying all the disconnections among young people\u2014the reason that young people walk away from faith\u2014for a long time; but we really wanted to understand what helps connect these ten percent, who are most resilient.\n\nAgain, we put people in different buckets; we analyze the data. We interviewed nearly 1500 individuals across those 4 groups that we\u2019ve been talking about this week. What we did was\u2014we really wanted to isolate: \u201cWhat are the practices that make a difference with those resilient disciples?\u201d These aren\u2019t formulas; but they are guidelines and guardrails for us, parents, to pursue.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Alright; what are they, Mark?\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Okay, we\u2019re going to give these to you in a very high-level way. It\u2019s important that you understand the context for that\u2014that these are big ideas\u2014but it\u2019s the detail underneath them is really where you start seeing the work.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Okay, parents, get ready!\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>The first thing is: \u201cExperiencing Jesus\u201d\u2014this idea that I\u2019m clearing away the clutter\/the religious clutter that exists in the world today and in the church to really meet with Christ.\n\n\u201cMeaningful Relationships\u201d\u2014I\u2019m around people that I enjoy being with and I aspire to become.\n\n\u201cCultural Discernment\u201d\u2014this idea that I can apply the Word of God to the world around me and navigate it\/make sense of it.\n\n\u201cVocational Discipleship\u201d\u2014this idea that my work is a part of the way I express my faith and live it out.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>There\u2019s not a disconnect between what I do 9-5 and who I am as a Christian.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Correct; it\u2019s not compartmentalized; it\u2019s an extension of who God\u2019s called me to be.\n\nThen, \u201cCountercultural Mission\u201d\u2014this idea that I know that I, as a Christian, am going to be living counter to the ways of this world; and that sometimes calls me to take epic moments of trust, where I trust in God rather than the conventions of this world for the good around me.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That list of five is powerful. Your book, <em>Faith for Exiles<\/em>\u2014that\u2019s the heart of the book\u2014is to talk about these five things. Go back to the first one\u2014the \u201cExperiencing Jesus.\u201d Are we talking about a phenomenal logical experience?\u2014are we talking about there needs to be a Spirit in the room that we\u2019re aware of?\u2014or what does the \u201cExperience of Jesus\u201d mean?\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>One of the interesting things that we did\u2014it was one of the first things I did when I get the raw data back is\u2014as I was looking through, I wanted to find out: \u201cWhat is the age that these different groups are saying that they consciously became a Christian\/that moment that they knew they were a Christian?\u201d What was really interesting\u2014is that resilients mark that age a little bit later in their childhood than the prodigals and the nomads, by about six years.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>What\u2019s going on?\u2014because, when I read that in your book, that jumped off the page.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It did! It\u2019s not what you hear: \u201cThe younger the better!\u201d\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>\u201cThe younger the better.\u201d Obviously\u2014I gave my life to Christ just before the age of five, and it stuck\u2014so there\u2019s no reason to doubt younger conversions. But I think we need to allow God to work in the lives of our children, and not try to force something to happen; because what we can see here is that we can actually socialize our kids to Christianity rather than actually helping them experience Jesus.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>That\u2019s where I think, if you notice these five factors working together\u2014just as you said, Bob, that if a person has an experience of Jesus but they don\u2019t have the mind of cultural discernment, or they don\u2019t work out their faith through vocational discipleship, or it\u2019s not alive in their relationships, or it\u2019s not sacrificial in terms of countercultural mission\u2014these five things really work well together; they have to work together\u2014our life with Christ and our relationship upwards, our relationship with others, our relationship of our heart and our mind and the work of our hands, and then our work in the world.\n\nAll five of these areas\u2014what we find is that people that are deficient in more than all five of them are deficient in their faith. It\u2019s not a test that we give them; but that if our faith in Christ doesn\u2019t work itself out in how we relate to others, how we think about the world, how we think about our work, how we think about our mission, then it\u2019s not the kind of Christianity that anyone wants to follow. I think that\u2019s what many young people are rejecting\u2014is these sort of half-hearted, one-dimensional forms of faith\u2014\u201cYes, I follow Jesus; I gave my life to Him, but nothing else really changed. Nothing else was really asked of me by the church.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Well, our kids prayed prayers when they were little; and we were talking about baptizing them, because they said, \u201cWe\u2019d like to get baptized.\u201d But Dave was like, \u201cYou know, let\u2019s just disciple them and wait,\u201d until, as they get baptized, like, \u201cThis is meaningful; we want to do this. This is our own faith; this isn\u2019t our parents; this is us.\u201d\n\nAt first, I was like, \u201cWhat? This isn\u2019t good!\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>No, she was all over me. [Laughter] \u201cLet\u2019s go! Let\u2019s get them baptized! They showed some interest!\u201d Again, I was like, \u201cLet\u2019s let it be their decision.\u201d Then it didn\u2019t happen for years and years; and then they go to Israel or somewhere, and come back and say, \u201cWe got baptized!\u201d\u2014which was great.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>I think what you\u2019ve just modeled there and described is very healthy, but the right kind of tension for parents to have\u2014you know, if you\u2019re in a single-parent home, the sense that you\u2019re trying to push your kids into the category of being Christian\u2014that\u2019s the thing we\u2019re learning so much with this generation.\n\nA lot of research that we\u2019re now seeing is that they don\u2019t want to be emotionally manipulated. In fact, one of the things that\u2019s really heartbreaking for me, as a researcher, is to hear the stories of young people, who say, \u201cYes, I made this weird commitment at a camp,\u201d\u2014or in an environment\u2014\u201cand I feel like, as I look back now, five years ago or ten years ago, is that they set these conditions in which my heart was going to be manipulated towards a certain decision.\u201d\n\nWe have to be really careful; this is a lifetime decision. I really applaud you guys for working that out in your relationship with your kids; even though it\u2019s hard for us, as parents, because we want to tip the kids into the Christian camp\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014out of fear, sometimes.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>That\u2019s right!\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Absolutely out of fear.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>How many of us have heard somebody share their testimony, as an adult, and they would say, \u201cWell, I prayed a prayer when I was six, but\u2026\u201d\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Exactly!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Then they go on to talk about a time, later in life, when their faith really became alive for them. What was going on spiritually?\u2014and if they had died, from one point to the other\u2014what\u2019s the truth? I won\u2019t get into that, because I don\u2019t know the mind of God. Only God knows the heart of a child, but I do know that what we want is we want there to be an alive faith in a child.\n\nI remember a guest on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, who said, \u201cThe same five-year-old, who says, \u2018I want to ask Jesus in my heart,\u2019\u2014says\u2014\u2018And when I grow up, I want to be a dinosaur,\u2019\u201d\u2014right? As a five-year-old, that\u2019s how you\u2019re thinking.\n\nNow, it could be, as it was for you, Mark, a genuine profession. One of our kids prayed at the age of four and walked with Jesus the rest of her life; right? We\u2019ve seen that happen. But there are a lot of kids, who pray the prayer at four; and when they\u2019re in junior high, they\u2019re not sure that that means anything to them anymore.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Let me give you an example of how differently these resilients and habituals are experiencing Jesus, just by the numbers.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Okay.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Remember, each one of these numbers represents a life that God loves, so it\u2019s really important that we understand that. But when we talk about those resilients\u2014we ask them: \u201cI believe living in relationship with Jesus is the only way to find fulfillment in life.\u201d Ninety percent of resilients said, \u201cThat\u2019s true for me.\u201d Only 49 percent of habituals said that was true for them, and 21 percent of nomads. You see the difference in terms of their experience of Jesus.\n\n\u201cMy relationship with Jesus brings me deep joy and satisfaction.\u201d Ninety percent of resilients; forty-eight percent of habituals\u2014so half\u2014this isn\u2019t like resilients are seven percent more. In almost every situation, it\u2019s double-digit percentage points differences between resilients\u2019 experience and the habituals\u2019 experience.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You talked about meaningful relationships being key. We\u2019re probably not going to be able to dive into all five of these\u2014and this is where people can get your book, <em>Faith for Exiles<\/em>, and look deeply at this\u2014but I remember when my kids were growing up, I used to say to them, \u201cI want you to identify somebody, who is five to ten years older than you, who you would look at and say, \u2018I would like my life to look like their life when I\u2019m their age,\u2019 and then figure out how they got to where they are.\u201d I was conscious of the fact that they needed some modeling, and they needed some people who cared about them, beyond Mom and me\u2014people who they could point to and say, \u201cYes, this is what I\u2019m growing for.\u201d\n\nWhen we\u2019re talking about meaningful relationships, role modeling is a part of that; isn\u2019t it?\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>It\u2019s a <em>huge<\/em> part of it. I think one of the most practical things that moms and dads can do out of this\u2014because you can\u2019t make your kids connect to Jesus; you know, you can provide an environment for that\u2014but the one thing you can do is invite others\/men and women into your home and surround your kids with these great examples and relationships.\n\nOne of the things that we found\u2014by, once again, wide margins\u2014is that resilients had much stronger relationships. They had people that were adults in their lives that they felt were investing in them; they had people that they felt they could be honest with about their spiritual journey; they had people that they admired in their church that they wanted to be like, just like what you suggested\u2014by almost 40 to 50 percentage points difference between the habituals in those situations. Huge difference, relationally.\n\nWhen I hear pastors say, \u201cHey, our church is all about relationships,\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cShow me how you\u2019re really connecting those younger people to those older people.\u201d That\u2019s something that moms and dads do. You know, we don\u2019t invite people over to our homes anymore; we don\u2019t have those things. That\u2019s where I really got to know the men and women in our church, and they invested in me and helped me <em>think<\/em> about my life spiritually. Even when some of them went off the rails, I saw the grace of God in their lives. I think that\u2019s a really important thing that we can\u2019t discount. Invite somebody over to your house this week\u2014a mature believer into your house this week\u2014that\u2019ll be your first step in helping your children.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>We actually see some really interesting social data now where young people are more likely to show trust and affinity with their peers or with people online. In fact, they trust a YouTube channel more than they would trust their youth pastor. So having other people around us and around our kids\u2014who can help them understand what it means to follow Christ; who love them; and love Jesus as much as we do; who don\u2019t have the same sort of weird motivations, perhaps, about getting them to be a Christian\u2014actually helps to cut through that clutter.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You know, as I think about my three sons, now married, and grandkids\u2014their faith\u2014I think I\u2019d put them in the resilient. It\u2019s as much because of Dave and Ann as it is Rob, Frank, Ryan, John, Craig, and Dave. Those men poured into them in high school; and even now, as they\u2019re in their 30s, they\u2019re still pouring into them. They found that.\n\nYou guys said it\u2014it\u2019s so critical that somebody else\u2014and some of these guys were my age. It isn\u2019t just that they\u2019re cool, and hip, and their age; no, they\u2019re living it in front of them; they\u2019re pouring into them and mentoring them. You can\u2019t devalue that; that is critical.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>It\u2019s interesting, when we look at younger stories\u2014like on Nickelodeon<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or Disney<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, or whatever\u2014almost always the parent or one parent is absent. The writer of <em>Hannah Montana<\/em>, in an interview, was talking about the fact that the reason they do this is because it creates more tension for character to develop in the story, not having those parents present or in the storyline.\n\nYou start going, \u201cWhoa, this is weird! Why is this?\u201d It\u2019s a part of the storytelling narrative; when our kids are going through those formational years, we are symbolically dead as parents; right?\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>That\u2019s depressing. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Yes; we may be speaking truth into their life\u2014you know, I was kind of called the teen whisperer at church\u2014people would be like, \u201cOh, you\u2019re going to have an <em>easy<\/em> time with your kids\u201d; I\u2019m like, \u201cBut I\u2019m the <em>parent<\/em> of my kids.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>There\u2019s kind of a different role that\u2019s played there. I realized, as we went through that phase, I needed the men and women of the church to be there\u2014to be those people, speaking into their life\u2014when the truth that I was speaking, they weren\u2019t hearing it. I was symbolically dead to them; I think there\u2019s something about that.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>How lucky are we that our kids have us as parents, because we have all the answers. [Laughter] We have the PowerPoint slides and the research to prove how they should be raised.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This goes back, David, to where we started, which is: \u201cThere is no formula.\u201d\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>There is no formula!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>The salvation of a child is a work of God in that child\u2019s life, and there\u2019s\u2014\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Get on your knees and pray.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014there is <em>nothing<\/em> you can do to make your child a Christian.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>And there is no timeline for it. I think that\u2019s the important thing\u2014is we need to be patient and allow God to work in their lives.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>We don\u2019t want our kids to go through pain. We really don\u2019t, because we have gone through it; and yet, sometimes, pain is the thing that has drawn us to Jesus.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; we\u2019re telling a lot of parents of prodigals and nomads: \u201cTheir story\u2019s not over yet.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cnot over.\u201d\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>That\u2019s why we call them prodigals.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cYou keep praying, and you keep seeking the Lord about what your interaction with them looks like; and you pray for God to bring somebody into their life, who\u2019s going to be revolutionary to help point them to the truth.\u201d\n\nI just hope moms and dads will catch a vision for what you\u2019ve outlined in this book; because again, while it\u2019s not a recipe, it is a road map for the things we can do to help stack the deck\u2014and that\u2019s to point our kids: to an authentic relationship with Jesus; to meaningful relationships with others; to understand, \u201cYou\u2019re going to face cultural headwinds, and here\u2019s what it looks like to live counter-culturally in the midst of a culture that\u2019s going in a different direction\u201d; \u201cHere\u2019s what it looks like for your work to be meaningful as you live it out\u201d; and \u201cHere\u2019s what it looks like to be on mission and to have God\u2019s purposes at the center of your life.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Get the book; it\u2019s going to change you.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We\u2019re excited about the work you guys have done and want to share this book with our listeners. Thank you guys for being on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. David, thanks for joining us remotely here.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes, my pleasure; thanks for having me.\n\n<strong>Mark: <\/strong>Yes, thank you so much for having us.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>David and Mark\u2019s book is called <em>Faith for Exiles<\/em>; and you can order your copy, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to get a copy of the book. Again, the title is <em>Faith for Exiles: 5 Ways for a New Generation to Follow Jesus in Digital Babylon<\/em>, by David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock. Order from us at FamilyLifeToday.com, or call to order: 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\nYou know, looking at the decline of spiritual interest in our culture can be discouraging. David Robbins, who\u2019s the president of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, is here with us today. Do you see reason for hope?\n\n<strong>David R.: <\/strong>Absolutely. My primary reason for hope is that I know our faithful God, who will continue to reveal Himself to the rising generation.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>David R.: <\/strong>But then, I also have a profound hope that\u2014though young people are not living as a cultural majority as Christians, that I got to enjoy, growing up\u2014those who are resilient disciples of Jesus can be a prophetic minority in this day. I have lived in some secular places, like New York City and western Europe, and those who follow Jesus in those places shine like the stars. You don\u2019t do it because you are supposed to do it; you do it because you are emblazoned with passion for Jesus.\n\nMy word to you, as parents and grandparents, would be to believe in your kids and believe in the next generation. Keep interceding for them and keep investing in them. Learn from them as they learn from you. The beauty is that Christ is in them, the hope of glory, and our kids know it\u2019s a complex world that they face and that they\u2019re navigating. They understand the need for a wholistic, integrated, deep faith that speaks to all of life. God\u2019s kingdom will continue to expand generation after generation through them. So please join us at FamilyLife of being a part of pouring into the next generation and platforming the next generation of Christ-followers with us.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, thank you to those regular listeners, who partner with us in this ministry\u2014help us reach hundreds of thousands of people every day with practical biblical help and hope for their marriage\/for their family\u2014your investment in this ministry is really an investment in the lives of so many couples\/so many parents. We\u2019re working hard to effectively develop godly marriages and families, and you help make that happen.\n\nIn fact, we would love this month to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d for any financial support you can provide for the ministry. We have copies of my new book, which is called <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em>. It\u2019s all about understanding a biblical definition of love in marriage rather than focusing on a cultural definition or a superficial definition of love. That book is our thank-you gift when you make a donation today. You can do that, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call to donate: 1-800-FL-TODAY is the number.\n\nWe are so grateful for those of you who have stood with us in the past. Again, if you can help with a donation today, we\u2019d love to hear from you. Thanks, in advance, for whatever you\u2019re able to do.\n\nNow, tomorrow, we want to talk about how moms and dads can raise daughters, who are strong, and confident, and courageous. 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