To open the show Mark and Debbie talk about new research showing how young Americans feel about marriage.
Mark and Debbie move on to talk about the difference sharing your marriage problems with friends can make. A wife is so fed up with her misbehaving husband that she writes a letter to him ‘drawing the line in the sand.’ Mark and Debbie get to an e-mail from a young single woman that hacked into her boyfriends e-mail and discovered he is gay.
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Thanks for touching on the subject of youth ministry and the major possibility that the system is broken. I can relate way to much when you start to change a system how much resistance there is to continue to do the same ole thing despite the lack or results. It seems that many parents do not want their kids to grow up and we as the church have become enablers within the system. I have been working towards more of an intergenerational youth ministry the last two years and have been met with much opposition. However, I continue to move forward knowing that parents are the key spiritual leaders within a child’s life not a youth minister. As North American Christians we have bought into the notion that if I pay someone to do it for me it will get done. Therefore, we pay for somebody to do almost everything for us. Like an old professor once said, “Do it to me, do it for me, but don’t make me do it.” I guess I need to work on my book manifesto about this subject. Thanks!