A Word to our Young Adults
The following is not shared to judge or offend anyone, but rather to help us all (as the church) to understand some of the ways culture is leading our young adults in the wrong direction and to pray and encourage their pursuit of God’s plan.
On February 5th, Dr. Al Mohler spoke these words on his daily podcast (The Briefing) in light of a Wall Street Journal article on why Young Adults are not growing up: “They’re not moving into adulthood. They’re not achieving the usual markers of Adulthood. These young people are not not getting married and they’re not not becoming parents and they’re not not buying homes because they can’t. It’s because they’re making other choices. It’s because they have other priorities in life. It is because they are rejecting, whether they say it or not, the pattern that led to adulthood in previous generations.” Those are some pretty hard words and yet this is what The Wall Street Journal writers are seeing. Read the rest of Mohler’s words here: Part 1: A Generation of Young Adults That Never Grows Up: The Reaping of the World of Modernity is the Fall of Western Civilization as We Know it.
On February 12th, John Stonestreet and Shane Morris wrote an article entitled America’s Sex Recession: Young adults aren’t having sex, but God has a better plan for them in marriage. In this brief article, the authors noted this: “According to sociologist Lyman Stone in an article published at the Institute for Family Studies, sexlessness 'skyrocketed' between the late 2010s and the early 2020s, roughly doubling for young men and increasing by 50% for young women. According to data gleaned from the National Survey of Family Growth, there has been an unprecedented rise in celibacy among those in the 22–34 age bracket, the period of life in which most people have historically gotten married. On one hand, the decline of hookup culture is clearly a good thing. Casual sex reliably produces personal and social brokenness, fuels demand for abortions, and increases the epidemics of fatherlessness and sexual infections. However, as Stone is careful to clarify, these surveys do not reflect a sudden outbreak of chastity. Rather, this 'sex recession' has been 'driven mostly by a decline in the number of males with one female partner' or long-term relationships. In other words, young people are not forming the same bonds, particularly marriage, that were once far more common.” Read the entire article, "America's Sex Recession."
Why share information like this? The closing paragraph of American’s Sex Recession answers it best: “God made sex and the institution of marriage for our good and joy. A mountain of social science and decades of experience prove that His way is better than the lonely, loveless alternative.”
Pastor Jeff
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