Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of Unchanging

Truth, for the Colson Center on John Stone Street.

Back in 2020, the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found that

just 2% of millennials, a generation that is now well into adulthood, have what can be

called a biblical worldview, and that's the lowest of any generation since surveys began.

Lifeway research also reports that two-thirds of those who attend youth group as a teenager

will drop out of the church as adults.

A significant aspect of the battle for the hearts and minds of the next generation has

to do with ideas, helping students think correctly about life in the world, much less God

in themselves, would be hard enough if they weren't facing such strong cultural headwinds.

But they are, and the bad ideas that float around our culture are like viruses.

They have the ability to spread from the mind to the heart, from person to person, even

infecting entire populations.

And many young people today leave the face simply because they lack any natural, immune

defenses against the bad ideas of our culture.

Christian parents must not only present truth to their kids, they have to find ways to

immunize them against lies.

To do that, we need to know which teaching methods work and which ones don't.

Dr. Jeff Myers of Summit Ministries points to the work of a Yale Psychology Professor

from the 1950s.

Dr. William McGuire suggested that bad ideas behave like viruses, specifically the more

exposure that one has to bad ideas and a controlled setting, the less likely they are to fall for

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