ALL around me people are asking the same questions, over and over again: “Why are young people not coming to church?”, “Why do young people not like church?”. There’s a simple answer to a long-debated question…
I’m 17 years old and I’ve been going to church for as long as I can remember. I’m a Christian and I’m also a teenager, and that means I see two worlds.
During the week, I go to school and I see many problems that my generation faces. I see my school’s counsellor leave because of budget cuts, yet the mental health support worker has pupils every period of every day because they’re crying out for help. I see my friends left shaking from panic attacks in the classroom and intelligent, funny, incredible kids left crippled by anxiety and depression. I see my teachers asking our minister to come into the school as often as he can because they’re pleading for more help. And it’s not just at school anymore, we go home, and our phones are bombarded by pictures and videos of a so-called perfect life that just makes us feel even more inadequate.