USA (MNN) — Earlier this year, Barna Research showed a 12 percent rise in US adults committing their lives to Jesus since 2021.
“Hearing these statistics that more people are claiming faith is a great thing. Now the question is, what will they do with that?” Keys for Kids’ Greg Yoder says.
“A lot of people can say [they] are followers of Jesus, but if you don’t read or listen to the Bible, how are you going to know the Jesus that you are serving?”
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Discipleship is a critical part of the Christian life. “It’s almost catastrophic to lead someone to Jesus and not follow up with discipleship,” Yoder says.
“Frankly, it’s on the churches because we haven’t been adamant about discipleship. It’s been, ‘Let’s get them saved, and then we’ll wipe our hands and move on to the next one.’”
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“We want to make sure that we’re teaching them the truth that can only be found in God’s Word, in Christ alone,” Yoder says.
According to a 2023 study, over 90 percent of parents have no plan for their kids’ spiritual development. “There is a craving, a hunger for kids to know spiritual things,” Yoder says.
“We know kids are going to find some kind of spiritual truth. It might not be the truth that we know in Scripture.”
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“We just hope we’re a conduit to help these young people be apologists and ready to dive into their faith,” Yoder says.
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