Tonight on Teen Talk Radio, two special guests and a BIG giveaway!
Will Bakke
Award-winning director of BEWARE OF CHRISTIANS and ONE NATION UNDER GOD, Will Bakke found his niche as filmmaker while in college at Baylor University, when he developed the short comedy sketch series Bearly There Productions. For that work, MTV named Bakke one of the Top 25 Filmmakers on Campus. His focus since is on feature films; he’ll direct the third film from Riot Studios with the working title BELIEVE ME.
Alex Carroll
A 2010 graduate of Georgetown University, Alex Carroll co-produced both BEWARE OF CHRISTIANS and ONE NATION UNDER GOD. He also was a featured performer in BEWARE OF CHRISTIANS. In 2009, Alex founded Scot Productions, a sports media website for his high school alma mater in Dallas, and Campus Corner Connection, a successful advertising and social networking site. While at Georgetown, Carroll helped initiate a campus ministry known as The Gathering.
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CHURCH AND THE NEXT GENERATION
In the film BEWARE OF CHRISTIANS, four recent college graduates, all Christians, trek across Europe, cameras in hand and questions in mind. From London to Barcelona to Rome, Paris and beyond, they engage with young locals and fellow travelers to find out how Christians are perceived and examine the relevance of their own faith in today’s world.
This honest film from these young believers, part documentary, part “road picture,” dares to broach the hard questions about faith and the next generation. Meanwhile, a recent study from the Barna Group, a leading research firm in matters of faith, points to interesting trends among young people and the church drain.
As young Christians transition from high school to young adulthood:
- Only about three in 10 that identify as Christians and are active in church in high school are active in church by young adulthood.
- Two of 10 feel alienated from the “comfortable” church and faith of their parents; they feel unable to reconcile their faith with the culture and society around them.
- Four out of 10 continue to be interested in their faith but are less active in church.
- One of 10 leave their faith behind.
Why do young adult believers grow dissatisfied with the church? Leading reasons include:
- Cultural ignorance. While they want to interact with the culture, young Christians feel the church resists and fears that.
- Irrelevance. More than half say church is either uninteresting or irrelevant.
- Arrogance. A third feel the church is too sure of its answers and a quarter think the church is against science.
- Society and morality. Young people struggle to reconcile the hyper-sexualized culture around them with the church’s moral teaching.
- Walls. While a quarter of young believers express doubts about their faith, more than a third say they don’t feel free in church to ask questions about what is most significant to them.
SOURCE: You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving the Church and Rethinking Faith, by David Kinnaman, 2011, Baker Books.
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I’ve seen these statistics before. I’ve never seen the reasons that young people give for them though. That was interesting. Not too surprising though. Does this film help parents and Churches take steps in the right direction or just point out the flaws? I’ve never heard of it before. If it’s good then it’s something I would enjoy being able to share with others to encourage and challenge them.
~ J:-)mi
Tune in tonight, Jamie, or come back after tonight to check out the podcast of tonight’s Teen Talk Radio show. I’ll be sure to ask my guests your question (Which is a GREAT one!)
Thanks!
This is a very interesting dvd. We are watching it at our church for youth group.
It’s awesome, isn’t it??
I tend to think that many young Christians leave the church because they never felt at home in the first place. Many of our churches are geared to reach out to adults and nurture adults. Many kids and youth are just there as extras.
I thought the radio show interviewing these guys was fascinating. I immediately went to their website and watched all the preview videos of the DVD. I love that they really came to make their faith real and realized that Christianity is not about religion, but loving Jesus!
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