Compelling quote. Good stuff.

As a youth pastor, I get a firsthand look at how the faith of adults passes on to the next generation. The students’ faith issues are those of their parents – only amplified and more obvious (because they haven’t learned all the “christian-eze” yet).

Sometimes it is the “christian” teenagers that I have the hardest time communicating with. They hear my words, but they already understand most of faith to be lived passively.

HOWEVER. those students I have – who are from outside of the christian subculture – totally get it. they are the ones who understand what the word “faith” really requires of their life.

I think it’s a bit ironic, however, that Barna’s own book, Revolution, seems to advocate precisely this kind of Christianity. He surely doesn’t mean to do so, but when he advocates that church in the future can happen on the golf course — well, it doesn’t get much more casual than that.

Great thoughts.