Sean's a national speaker and founder of Champion Ministries. Every week he reaches out to over 10 million churched and un-churched young people through the Groundwire radio spots in over 800 markets worldwide. In 1989, he started a seven-and-a-half-year tenure as youth pastor at Church on the Rock in Castle Rock, Colo. He's the author of several books, including I Want the Cross, Bored With God, and his latest book The Warrior Way. He and his wife, Mary, live in Colorado and have four young children.
We want our students to have a passionate love for Christ, yet many of them do not. We have young people who know it all, but don’t do much with what they know. They’ve heard the truth, experienced God’s presence, and been surrounded by great Christian community—yet their faith is weak. They don’t deny Christ; they just don’t live for him. This session will highlight the dangers and symptoms of spiritual apathy and will provide tactical steps for rescuing those who are floating in their faith.
If teenagers need to research history, they’ll run to the Internet. If they want to know what time the movie starts or what the weather will be, they run to the Web. And where are they going to find spiritual answers or to ask life’s most difficult questions? They’re going to the Internet. When we understand the opportunities that exist there—not just to post content, but also to engage dialogue—we’ll truly be crossing over the cultural barrier and touching lives.
Young people are gathering on the Internet en masse. They spend hours interacting with people on forums, chat rooms, virtual worlds, and gaming sites. Why? What needs are being met in these cyberworlds that are being ignored in a tangible one? As youth ministers we can learn a great deal about teenagers’ interests, perspectives, and needs by critically examining their Internet activities and diets.
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