Staggering numbers

I stumbled onto "Revival Outside the Walls Ministry" website and was absolutely blown away by what I read there. I'm sharing just four of the statistics (see below) as they relate to what we're praying for this week, but I hope you'll take some time to go check out their website in more depth. We need to be in prayer daily for our youth because it sounds as if the principles and doctrines in the Bible are not being shared even in the church.
     A woman in one of our bible study groups posed the question (regarding sharing our faith): What are we afraid of? We aren't persecuted here in the U.S. as those in other countries are. We can speak freely without the risk of being thrown in jail or killed (there are exceptions to this, of course); yet those people living where it's illegal to believe in Christ do share the gospel. They put their life on the line to spread God's word. Here, we have nothing to lose, but we seem to be more afraid and therefore don't share it. It doesn't make any sense.
Possible answers/responses:

• afraid of rejection
• afraid of being asked questions we don't know the answers to
• afraid we're pushing our beliefs on others
• afraid of making others angry or uncomfortable

These are legitimate responses, but none of them are life-threatening. We need to do whatever we can to get past these fears. As for myself, I've been in prayer about it and God has given me opportunities to share in ways that I'm more comfortable with which helps me build up the confidence to do more along those lines. So, whatever your fear is, please pray about it and listen when God responds.

Start with a conversation:

Only half of all the teenagers who grew up in a “Christian Home” had regular family conversations about God. | Revival Outside the Walls Ministry

93% of practicing Christians aren’t comfortable to have a conversation about the Lord with their own grandchildren. | Revival Outside the Walls Ministry

Remember, the children are the future church.

Two-thirds of all American churches are experiencing (1) no growth and (2) a decline in numbers. | Revival Outside the Walls Ministry

24 of 25 Millennials don’t have a Biblical worldview. | Revival Outside the Walls Ministry

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV

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