Anyhow, what caught my eye was the title of an article: "The Last Christian Generation." In it, author Josh MacDowell explains how we are witnessing the possible final generation of Christians in the North American Church. This means that Christians are becoming mere church-attenders as opposed to actual disciples of Christ. Let me let Phil Callaway illustrate:
"According to Barna (a renowned researcher) 65 percent of our churched kids either suspect or believe there is no way to tell which religion is true. In 1994 52 percent of evangelical Christian kids said, “there is no truth apart from myself.” In 1999 that number jumped to 78 percent. Now it is a staggering 91 percent. Sixty-three percent of our kids say, “Jesus Christ is not the Son of God.” He’s a son of God."There's a lot of places that we can go here, and if you feel you need to address an issue that this raises, by all means, address it here. But I do want to ask you a question: How do you know that Jesus is God? Or does the Bible even say (or imply) that Jesus is indeed God at all? No doubt the root of this issue will help explain why we are potentially witnessing the last Christian generation. Find some Scripture to back it up and post it!
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If we want, we can explain this using the very much relevant illustration of God being like and Egg. An egg has a shell, the white and the yoke. God is the Father; Jesus is the son and the Holy Spirit. I have also used the example of how I can be a daughter to my parents, a worker at my job and a counsellor for them at camp. I am still one person doing many things. In the Bible, there are also many examples from the Old Testament to the New Testament where God has revealed himself to us. In addition, we can look at the life of Jesus and say that He lived out his life as God is(as a person) and how he wants us to be.
John 5:17-18 says, "But Jesus replied, 'My Father never stops working, so why should I?' So the Jewish leaders tried all the more to kill him. In addition to disobeying the Sabbath rules, he had spoken of God as his Father, thereby making himself equal with God." This is one part in the bible where it implies that Jesus is God.
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