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Welcome back to Cold Case Christianity.

I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

We have been talking over the last couple of weeks about the need to move from a teaching model to a training model as the church, as Christians individually, and as parents and leaders of young people.

It's one thing to teach, but it doesn't seem to be... as parents and leaders of young people.

It's one thing to teach, but it doesn't seem to be stemming the tide

of young people leaving the church.

All the teaching we've been doing,

and we've got some excellent teachers in the church

over the last two centuries here in America

has not seemed to stem the tide of people who are leaving Christianity and now say they

have no religious affiliation. Those numbers are increasing as those who are part of

traditional mainline denominations are decreasing. So it's important for us I

think to shift what we've been doing. Obviously that's not working.

Not working the way we like it to work. I saw it myself. I taught for a year only to watch

my high school seniors leave Christianity, leave their faith, leave the church after they graduated from our program.

And I realize whatever we're doing, it's not working.

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