Dear Anne-Marie,
Visiting you was a delightful experience. Jean and I very much enjoyed meeting you, especially since you are such an enthusiastic and vibrant ambassador for our Lord. As you know, I amd very eager to mentor young people, particularly in the area of resilient relationship-formation and Christian worldview development.
Today I read the following commentary:
The vice-president of a large Christian university recently observed: "Students come here with a love for God in their hearts but their minds think like pagans!" Christian college students thinking like pagans? What would cause this administrator to make such a statement?
To answer this question, the Nehemiah Institute surveyed high school students nationwide to determine their worldview. Students were asked a number of questions relating to important issues of the day. How they responded would help researchers discover whether the young people viewed the issues of the day from a Biblical perspective or from a humanistic perspective.
The results revealed something that should be a wake-up call to Christian parents everywhere. The average score placed most of our Christian teens squarely within the secular humanist camp! Now keep in mind these young people were all members of evangelical churches. Most of them would tell you that they love Jesus. But when it comes to important cultural issues, they think like, well, pagans.
This is what I have observed many times: young Christians who want to serve God but whose mind has been inundated with a humanistic mentality, so they do not have a way of evaluating life from a Christian perspective. Getting young people to attend church is not good enough. We must find ways of captivating their hearts and minds fully for the Lord's service and instilling in them a Spirit-filled imagination and a will eagerly devoted to making our Lord's Kingdom of shalom become more visible in this world.
Anne-Marie, how can we fire up young Hungarians to become socially and culturally more relevant for multi-faceted Kingdom service? I'd like to think along with you in this regard. We need to mentor many talented young people who are willing to foster a robust Kingdom vision for the nations in many of their peers. There may be a cloud of despondency hanging over Hungary, but God's people must not sit down and lament by "the rivers of Babylon," but ought to ignite their Spirit-filled imagination to stir up the new life in Christ in the young people of Hungary and neighbouring countries.
May God keep on encouraging you, Anne-Marie.
Warm regards,
Wybe
