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witnesses called our family tree and we're going to get into what that means
but
but they're going to be statistic is done by the barn and ripped in two
thousand eleven
and uh... is pretty it's is pretty setting when i read it but fifty nine
percent
of anywhere from fifteen years old
into their twenties leave search ever going to their whole life
uh...
and never come back
something like that and they they leave church and never come back with a
discount for an extended period of time after the age of fifteen
sore not just talking about twenty-somethings starts at the age of
fifteen
something's happening in those they just where
where there's a real strokes young adults
and i always do this if i'm preaching to you the very thing like that
another we've already prayed but i want a proof our move any further
uh... and if you will just fire had part of him
privately for this church
i thank you for what it means to my wife and i
profile that for your word today in
prepared to use me too
to communicate what you have a snow
we thank you for everyone in this room where we think that you here with us
and using operating
you know the thing is that when i was a kid on the last year but i had a
fantastic childhood
i was very blessed to help and test it out of are called the same my childhood
it by saying that it's a lot before
i mean it was pretty close to that i mean
my greatest concern as a child was when we're going to get to play g_i_ joes
next
when i get the players next like when i got to get to put together that hot will
send that summing not a very stressful life as well try to get across i mean
very blessed
and one of the biggest reasons also blessed because my family my parents
were still look i was very blessed to have such loving parents that provided
for me treatment of flooding and we're christians showed me god's love
and uh... i mean i would have believed anything that my dad would have said
maybe still a lot before and it is the first pacific relationship but i love it
out of the lead anything that he said i mean just give you sampling
he can walk to my room let me know a little kitty can walk through open the
door instead arguments i talked to said
american woman
and i want to have to give him a walkman
amigos
moral outside of the beautiful day like this can be a day
bright blue skies in only looked at the sky and goes
what we've done what colors guy
that's a below
and i'd be so excited cuz i got the color right you know
but any of that for us
you know what's made below
bird
he'd go business made a blue cotton candy like what you get the state fair
before that if that's what blocked that not be a a ho ho
that makes perfect sense
and then i built by my friends of bill outlook for away the science book for
that stuff blue
cotton candy we need to below at or something this is awesome
again i mean
now he never did that might have brought friends of your me tell a story about he
would never say that but just to get the point i want to believe
anything that he said
the scale of my life right here
i mean this is birth to the untimely demise of frankie right here
that what i call the cotton candy or sandlot phase is about right here
but something happened when i got to be about right
and i call that being a preaching
fifteen or about this but this is that age
where are starts saying things in the nice way possible
i disagree
and that i disagree for you may be your kid running down the hallway and
slamming the door something you said right
and i did that several times
we're right at that age right when i got to be about a preety maybe ten eleven
twelve something around there
is when skepticism stirred it into my life
and if you know me really well by the white house is very well as i can attend
to be skeptical about things
i got sloppy work through that years but
i'm convinced that when that age came it just became morse catherine arson
and what i mean by that is
it's an adult would say something i wouldn't believe the skies
made with cotton candy out prolly investigate a little bit more
and ever since then there is always thought there's something behind
something
and i'm convinced that many young adult support talking about today
are skeptical
the more young adults that i talked to housing column not that far removed from
my undergraduate degree
the more constants of talks in the more
and also talk to my family my friends in
these people i've met
they're skeptical are getting a one-word
is skeptical
have a theory as to why that's true
a lot of us have the unfortunate displeasure when your kids
i've seen people who claim to be christian
say they're christian walk out the door and live a different light
and when we got that age of skepticism we were watching
were watching what went on we are watching this this person may be raise
his hands and search may have all the answers a lot group that
as soon as he walks out the door is a different story
this many bring many has a quote
is uh... speaker an opera
he says the single greatest cause of eighty is a man our world today
are christians
as christians to acknowledge jesus with their lives
and and i am with ur lifestyle
he says this is what in the unbelieving world calls
unbelievable
i'm convinced of that states exactly what i mean
so many conversations i've had
givers like we're christian is not for me
i do it yourself version is not for me
like i've seen people who claim to be christians in the and they don't love it
you know in that in a borrowed
study group that did happen in two thousand level i mentioned earlier they
had six reasons why they believe that young christians relieving the church
and in most cases
never coming back
now worried this break as i think really stuck out his is reasonable to add to
that list of six
it says the second reason that young people departures is in the bills is
that something is lacking in the experience of church
one-third said the church as boring as thirty one percent
one-quarter of the sender those said that faith is not relevant to my career
interest this twenty four percent
or that the bible's not cut clearly are often enough
twenty three percent of sub
the bible isn't quite clearly are often enough in the last
part of it said that they had nothing to do with their career
or their interest at the time
but the one the second time in the most was it said that the bible's not talk
clearly
or often enough
and that struck me
but a resonance with the conversations i've had to know
stay in the past few years then reason meet were able to go to a
conference not long ago this last fall
may resume in their name might win
and he is a pastor of a
really large church
connected to his church as a young adult ministry that just boom hundreds and
hundreds of people come to this yellows mystery
as a trend invested what these young people need where they want
one of these things they found was three things
people wanna know specially young people
what is the while saying
what does that mean
and how do i apply that to my life
what as well say
was that mean howard piperlime i mean straightforward
fairfax
wide because young people and convinced of this the more morrissey are desperate
for truth
young people here
desperate for a confrontation
a concrete
absolute truth
that they can't hold
when i was in college
uh... there's this big class of that
putting up quite close to thirty thousand people my college in colorado
and
there is a big plaza where them
biggest concentrations of students would pass by
because they're all going for classes so people take their opportunity to priest
airfare comunica bennett thing could have been a muslim
buddhist a christian
orchid in just a politician but that was the place if you wanted the state your
case this is where you did it
and without fail but that was a religion or somebody offering something for
eternity
are offering some kind of concrete truth
there'd be literally hundreds of students gathered around and circle
hundreds of students go around circle
why because they're desperately seeking truth evening some time to stop and
listen with this person to say
because it just interestingly and out some friends might have gather round
because we're on the sconces for for truth
today while talking i want to talk with three really different groups of people
are talking animals directly
i want to talk to families in our church down to talk to the church is a whole
family you know thailand a message dated our family tree
uh... what i mean that will get into that
how can we have our own symmetry here profits spiritual family tree
you know if you're a single person this rumor
justice if if you're young adult ustream
i've met so many of you
i feel like you're probably search into
if you are searching i can tell you that that searched in in today
the search can end today
that search for truth not knowing anything concrete can in today
and begin a journey with jesus christ
and john chapter fourteen
for six jesus says and the way that shoot from life
no maintenance of the father except through me
that's the end of the search
that's the end of lookin dalton watching all these talk shows and when was this
do you have to say about
distros unwanted that's the end of going to these bookstores and there's an
entire still
of self-help books that will be no good
the search ends here in the journey also begins here with your relationship with
jesus christ
have to stop and say that
no income so the father except through me and switches
sophal with me as we continue
when i was thinking about the sermon was thing about talking yesterday
timothy kept popping up in my head to mrs
person the bible now timothy was the son of a great man
and a jewish woman
the way that a lot of you main islands he was
that protege if you will have the power paul the apostle who wrote a picture of
the new testament right
timothy was poured into by paul
paul looks at the red sea hero lou that that
pop that since he was paul spiritual child
i mean how cool it be to be mentor by paul the apostle route that will simply
and books of
first and second timothy r letters from paul too tempting
filled with instruction
it's a thing from warning from false
teachers too
i mean to remember to bring my cloak that i left with you
i mean it's
study that's really in their amina is surprising to read that sometimes but
any warning its false teachers and
and bolding timothy and just saying
fight the good fight don't be ashamed of the gospel this is
paul this older passes older dazzled pouring into this young pastor
region of emphasis
i want to turn with me the first timothy
to the second class first in person with it
six point person to six point with the collapse of the into the book
pollsters got that just got through it occurred to them
emboldened saying fight the good fight of faith and watch out for false
teachers
the reason this first popped out to me when i was getting ready for this is as
a college student even of the same reason right now
this applies directly to my life because it's everywhere
or read for you guys if you want fall-off
person at the uh... six point
ultimately
guard the deposit interest to you
avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions
of what is falsely called mileage
suck what are using the standard version and so it may
may sound different somebody else
but there's a whole lot now one thing it's like is it
he forgot to say sincerely paul and he said this instead
you can almost
since the passion in paul's voice when he's trying to see saying
all ten
guard the deposit interest city
was a stalking horse is a positive systems everything that he's shown so
far less letters everything these poor out to them
it's his faith in jesus christ as he is stressful on you see
during this time
there were tons of false teachers that would come in and they would say
that it's not just faith in jesus christ that you need for eternal salvation
you also need this
whatever the cis
weatherby circumcision where they'll be something like that or a lot of them
would say disabled know a lot of fax again the head and he seemed a lot of
information
you'll be good need to get to a certain hello this level
and then you'll be admitted into heaven
this would happen
and timothy was going to have to be prepared to fight against what she says
guard the deposit interested t
in the next book second timothy three sixteen percent ***
all scripture is freaked out by god
and it's profitable for teaching for correction for proofing for training and
righteousness
but the man of god maybe competent equipped for every good work
that's what you got a car
this book right here
is a gift from god and we don't worship this book this book is a gift from god
filled with instruction that we are the guard
they sammy and he goes on in this person he continues
why you have to guard regarding you can see sensible timothy gartland pas
interest to you
and he goes on policy never pretty strongly she's never afraid to get in
your face and say what the truth is
he says
avoid that irreverent babble
and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge
i mean i think some of you know what year every battle and contradictions
was false leak almost is but i think all you have to do to find that
is go home turner t_v_ input ground floor but you know i mean
the world offers so much of that
this kind of your ever about was the type of
babble that you encounter fewer freshman in college in going to that anthropology
one oh one class
lecture hall of a hundred fifty
bright-eyed bushy tailed college jesus ready to learn to take it all in right
new because this professor stand up at the firm classes they which among his
aggression
this happens really does
not just the source
which among use a christian
as usually less than five
because it's pretty scary thing right
knows that one person were to be like uh... raise their hand get ready for
work about to come
and that is your biggest separate that student for how stupid here she is
carlo there are for believing in the bottle this happens
no calls the first time in my life where i was in the minority is a christian
some of your young adults in this room may be getting ready for college
maybe you're just of that age men because look for you but you're not
going to the work force
i can tell you that there's a lot of irreverent babble that'll come at you
annual falsely call itself
knowledge
s_s_i_ p_h_d_'s attached so that means nine
says those credentials are attached the t_v_ hostname
it'll be really hard for you say
unless you have this firm foundation unless like paul
said to tempt you go arpa posit this atrocity
unless you know for a fact that what it says in a fetus who wait that your saved
by
grace through faith
and nothing else if you have a firm foundation
it won't be a big deal
you will know you have the foundation
and even though you don't know all the answers about one moment young adult
you'll have that foundation you'll be prepared to guard for
now i know not everyone in this room
isn't on the bell right had told us to talk to them
families into the whole family of our church
i want you to rose's prods the page over for you
to the first chapter second something
we're gonna read that together
which we get there for a second
second timothy chapter one percent
says paul an apostle christ jesus by the will of god according to the promise
of the life is in christ jesus
to timothy my beloved child remember that
grace mercy
peace from god the father and crises are more
first three
i think i've my served
as did my ancestors with a clear conscience as i remember you constantly
my first night and day as i remember your tears along to see you
but i may be filled with joy i'm reminded of your sincere faith of faith
the first or the new grandmother lowers and your mother eunice
and now i am sure dwells in you as well
i'm convinced that
that many families in the chairman in paris in this room from the first second
he found out that you have a baby racer wives can have a baby you begin praying
you begin praying
that that child would come to know the lord
i mean it's justice ernest inside your heart is a
as a christian
pair at the same and i want my kids and its relationship with god
and i mean they were born in such a blessing in then
maybe down the road that you find yourself in a crib
praying for this pain print the salvation stated that they'll have that
same relationship as you do with christ
whether the hud that piece that only price to you
and therefore you know what you're going to a soccer game right you're going to a
basketball game to go into a dance recital
and you're still praying for charles salvation
man time flies by endure a high school graduation
still think that tells a legend has it happened
you not sure why but your husband your wife you're just
uses testing
before you know that kid turns twenty three now's a man or woman
environment yours margaret referred me
and naked says idle
i'm tired of this i don't want to go church
for all those reasons reread early cuz
issues for research that sells for you months not for me
and then this moment of
horror of this moment of
fear comes or the like what you can describe
this moment of i want this from acuna and you know below dot so intimately you
want that so bad for your kids
if you continue reading with me
inverse six of leaders
for this reason i remind you to fans of flying the gift of god
which is in you through the laying on of my hands and number seven
for god gave us
not a spirit of fear but a power and of low enough self control
here's the deal are you afraid
if your child malnutrition and not say by god to not have this
this relations dot are you afraid i wasn't giving you the spirit of fear
as he's in bowling a tendency in this in this passage to too
bball with the gosport to not be afraid because that doesn't come from god the
same way
you're not to be afraid if your kid has far reach that point yet
in the same way you cannot save your child
not know how much i can tell you that you cannot save your child that's in the
hands of god
what secure him so far
this is the same guy i've been in matthew chapter nineteen
as soon as he gets through
telling is this i will tell your by random house part of history stranded in
the head and he says it's
it as hard as i can wolf into the eye of a needle
and his disciples say
all that sort of stuff you just sent who can get into heaven
and he says this she says in
matthew nineteen percent sixty says
but jesus looked at them and said with man this is impossible
but with god all things are possible
i don't know how many times you can tell yourself that
i don't know how many times you can tell yourself that it's not with in my power
to say this kid that i love more than anything
maybe it's your brother
may be at your sister maybe journeys maybe jer granddad
anything i don't understand how this person cannot love dot
or spotting your power but what you can do is stressed out for
because with dot all things are possible even likely that seems so far gone a
little seems so far gone
he's a skeptic he doesn't mean thing to do with it he said that saved his life
is doing his own thing
with god all things are possible not wanting her gym way
but then there's the other side maybe war praying at the curtain
maybe you were praying every chance he got maybe or save last week
howling at
i'll tell you this just like what it says the beginning of this first for the
beginning of the section of scripture in person at the
says i'm reminded of burst five
of your sincere faith
a faith but we'll first in your grandmother willow us
and your mother eunice and now i'm sure
falls in u as well
when other kills very blessed when i told you but not just by my parents
i had a wonderful extended family grandparents might
my grandpa
ted and my grandmother g both pastime or great godly men and women of very
blessed
all of their children are christians so many cousins
family members that just i heard christians
and i got to see that example like with timothy and the floors and eunice
exam please
and their children's lives
and even the grandchildren's lives
but i know not everybody's blessed with that
what if you were sick last week what if you've been a christian a whole life
coaching
don't remember praying for the celebration child happens
i can't say this right now but it's never too late for you
to become a loesser units in the life
of your family
the life of young adult child the wife of your newborn baby
it's never too late to establish what work on our spiritual family tree
our spiritual legacy
and what are you doing you're not taking your behavior in trying to mold it
yourself
into taking a behavior trends correct
behavior have this moral behavior modification stuff that you're bernau
snot your deal
use of mit
your actions to gone just like with talks about the romans twelve it
answers for new your mind give your whole self renew your mind
what renew your mind what document
and change your actions don't just try to do it yourself
but so that you're showing your kids day-in and day out
not a whole bunch of rules
but the grace of god
that's overwhelmed
and let me tell you that wants to do that
if you're already doing that that is undeniable
that is something when that change happened somebody's life classic for so
many stories of families just changing because i see
that has changed mom exchange grandpa has changed why because
only god did what only got to do
he came in and change the life of a person
person if you think it's so far cannot have got people in my life like that
cycle or it's gonna take america llc great
it's gonna take a miracle hallelujah because all things are possible
through art dot
i don't know how many times you can remind yourself
so if you know
individuals in the dolls families but what about us as a church body some of
you don't have a family and we're blessed with that
and some of the ecology weren't able to go homie
because replaced because there was no one to go on tape
you know a couple of the great dismisses bottoming right
i want to tell you that
we hear in this body and christians across the world
are in the family of god
to my brother's mission there followed a price on your brother
so the sisters that are in crisis rumania abrupt you-know-what
you're my sister you're my brother in christ were church family you
specifically crossroads is up to you
and you feel that when you come in here
but just spiritually speaking we are family
so what can we do
and second timothy chapter one verse to quesada remember
paul cost in the p his beloved son
pollen related timothy
licensing
he's saying that because he is port his life in tennessee he string them up he
has this cycle
justice last thursday we had several people that came to get trained to do
the same thing
to disciple somebody else that was maybe younger and faith in the war
and the sewing persians who goes came
so that they could be trained or maybe just importers this time
begin the guide people through this curriculum how-to guide people through
the word of god
how they can model that parliament
and i want to say we're going to get over to do that again we don't know the
dates except we're gonna give you another opportunity
if you want to be meant for somebody if you want to be
appalled as somebody if you want to be a spiritual father or spiritual mother by
encouraging spray
and pray
about that
that's only people with the capability in this room and i just think richard as
much as i can for you do that
i've got one more story approximately
my teeth after another kid you say there's a grown man
here do you get a wife and three young girls
and the all the best of my church came his front door a little apartment
complex right down the street from where i lived
and he knocked on the door and said i'd like to bite or churches the bs vacation
bible school here in town at the local park
that's ok house counsel for his girl seduce it took his girls out there
but one of the very sure of the rumble tape himself that he was a
rough-and-tumble guy
amnesty did anything and everything else and he had passed my head
well richer skeptical
is that the navy's skeptical
but it was the c_b_s_ kids had a great time that they'd have girl time
but he approached jesse the youth pastor
at the end of it he said
jazeera i've got a strange press for it
i wanna following you
for the rest of this week
i won't go everywhere that you go i want to do everything that you do
i mean worked when you eat i want to be there in which if you're living along
with it
if you're on the phone so there wasn't a to write an email i'm the and jesse said
okay
you know he's like that's a very strange request he said
why is that incident just is one of the column see how you live
he knew the jesse was a christian he knew that it not only because he is a
pastor and he wanted to see if his skepticism
was justified
or price israel
suggest he said like you also available in recommended in this regard
jesse said
let me ask a lot going to get things
let me ask a lot
before this very large grown man comes in my house and does everything we do
okay
but several battle may be going to hari nominees isn't doing everything that we
do the right
at the white students
she knew what it was for
then ron came to the house
and literally did what he said he's going to the following just washed and
didn't are you and in some really say much
dishwasher
got a question you ask him
at the end of the week this is the adams he's a big name mean he looks like you
played linebacker minutes or something
he got that was nice and it's hard to christ
because this man allowed him to come to his home
and through that means testimony of not just preaching and not just to hold on
to support that just living
he found out the price is real
and boy when i first heard until that story i was uh... house it was last year
the first time i heard until a store and i never knew that
and he tells us he said
would you be able to do that
would you be able to take somebody in your home
allow them to watch your life and then see
is is cracks real
game it's not that it's not that storage is trying to correct your behavior can
but can we do that and how we submit our lives to got to work that's a
possibility
we can be
polite darkness of the skeptic of a young adult
for him
we've talked about me some statistics we've talked about
the fact that most of people step looks like
great news you know
talked of what we can do that ultimately when it comes down to
it's have you said that you want to go
do you have a relationship with jesus christ in the interim dining on talking
about is a summit with the jargon
because you cannot come to that place and i want to tell you that that
searching we've talked about and john
fourteen six
the search of peace out today
the peace that passes all understanding can be
in your life today
and that may be
today for you today
or tell you that
except in christ as your savior
isn't easy thanks not an easy commitment but
on your to do this it's by christian faith
if you have believed in god
if romans ten nine says that if you confess his mouth and believe me harvard
grad race price for that to the site
tool for another patient
romans ten thirteen says
all who call upon the name lower will be saved car company
if that's you today if you want to your heart to god i want your value purple
survive garcia
as i've said this every time that i've been in front of you
part is not some kind of magic personal attorneys if you want your heart to god
if you want to fast
he sent before god
if you will not believe tel dot two billion in two days
going to give you more to do that to some normal
totally asylum for about a minute
as fortunate
crowds are gone in this moment
i want to tell you that
if you do that's taking credit for the we desperately want to know that
last week just in the yard
isn't very sad thing to hear you have to stand up for our people
for committee recently that we just want her to celebrate with you this fact this
new relations with dot
he's got more questions we welcome
on when we don't have the from other singers song interest is mandatory for
periphery i'd love to do that
i'm gonna be down there for it
elderly out of information booth dot any questions about the church as a whole
but as you see this lifestyle
feel free to do that