Youth and Doctrine 1

Welcome to Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger, Pastor at Quail Lake Community Church.

Is the best way to attract and keep teenagers for Christ to entertain them into the Kingdom? Time Magazine recently ran an article titled, “In Touch With Jesus.” The article notes that youth pastors are growing weary of sugarcoating the Gospel with MTV-style services. Statistics show that over the past couple of decades over two-thirds of teenagers walked away from church and from practicing Christianity. The alternative? The author writes, “in recent years churches have begun offering their young people a style of religious instruction grounded in Bible study and teachings about the doctrines of their denomination.”

This is a piece of wisdom know for centuries in the Church, and that was only recently laid aside. C.S. Lewis, for instance, noted that the most practical thing a believer could do is learn theology—and he was right. Theology is knowledge of God, and the more we know about Him, the closer we can be to Him.

This has been Every Thought Captive, a Christian worldview minute sponsored by Quail Lake Community Church. For more information, please visit, quaillake.org.