Inspiring, but how does it apply to the specific issues? Do you really think that pro-choice positions are just dismissed? That it is easy to think through what it means to protect marriage?
I remember reading that most young people value marriage more highly because of the divorces that they experienced. Don’t they get it better than those that are following a fad?
Not just inspiring. The lesson is that the older and younger generations do it together. And by doing it together, we have a greater potential to demonstrate our message and strength to the opposition.
I know for a fact that Pro-choice positions are never just dismissed. No type of rhetoric or support will ever erase that which our soul was never created to do (taking life). God will wrestle with that person’s soul while on earth and whatever their eternity may be. The way the woundedness is manifested varies depending on the person. But, they are wounded and burdened forever by their action.
But I do not believe that screaming PROLIFE at the younger generation - especially by those who haven’t necessarily dealt with abortion, is an effective way to get their attention.
What I get back to is the importance of care-fully engaging in discussion with them. You have a better chance of helping them connect all the dots. Very often even believers of Christ are confronted with pregnancy. And, in their confusion and fear, they make a one sided bargain with Christ and flee from those who might counsel and care for them - often because there never has been embracing non-judging relationships. I’ve known more than one elder’s daughter who had an abortion. Unfortunately, I learned after the fact. Their parents’never knew.
They cannot “think through what it means to protect marriage” if they’re doing it in the arena of the secular world and those who do understand what it means to protect marriage standing there shaking their fingers at them and talking.... I fear that what they hear come out of the older generations’ mouths is the sound Charlie Brown heard whenever an adult spoke.
We must intentionally communicated with them. Seek them out, develop a relationship, understand them and help them understand.
Does that help?