It’s no secret that one of the hardest groups to reach and stay connected with is high school seniors. This isn’t just an article about keeping seniors, nor should we as youth workers ever at the start of a student’s senior year think about “keeping him or her around.” Instead, this is about creating community.
A little pain in the short-term is ultimately beneficial in the long-term. But like so many other things, when it comes to complex market systems—the immediate answer may not be as simple as we would like to think. Who is experiencing the “short-term” pain? What is the nature of that pain? These questions should be particularly important to people of faith.
One of the problems Christians have in reaching people who do not have a personal relationship with Jesus is that after having been a Christian for a while they don’t know anyone who is not a Christian. The church that would reach the unchurched must ask itself—“Do we know any unchurched people and how are we focused on them?”
Recently we heard of the grotesque killing of 21 Christian brothers at the hand of terrorists. In today’s article, Andrew Dragos shares 8 ways that we can be praying, related to ISIS, war, and terrorism across the globe. Join us in lifting these up to our God.
