Kevin DeYoung encourages youth leaders to remember that reaching the next generation will not be done through relevant pop culture references or harnessing the power of social media.
During my sixteen years as a missionary in Cambodia, I participated in a couple of short-term medical clinics and observed many. I would be the first to say that seeing a person in pain who is made well by the medicine and care I bring is fulfilling. And if that is all I am after, then it is also praiseworthy.
Churches used to help hold society together, a place for people of different social classes and political beliefs to get to know each other. But it isn't that way so much any more, to the detriment of our democracy and our national unity. So says social scientist Ryan Burge, who urges churches to recover their role in social cohesion.