However, it also found that most church youth programs tended to focus their energies on providing entertainment and pizza rather focusing on building up the young people in their faith. As a result, our teens are ill-equipped to face the challenges they will encounter in the world upon leaving home.

The church needs to take a hard look its youth programs. Instead of performing for them with skits, bands and videos, we need to get back to teaching them the Scriptures with logic, truth and a Christian worldview. Frank Turek, well known Christian author and lecturer on apologetics, in addressing the problem of our youth falling away from the faith, put it this way: “We’ve failed to recognize that what we win them with . . . we win them to.”

The bottom-line is that Christian parents and our churches need to do a better job of developing their hearts with the Word of God and their minds as well (1 Peter 3:15; 2 Corinthians 10:5).

(KJV)  2 Timothy 2:15 reads “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”