In recent years we've seen a cultural phenomenon that has been called different things

but the one term that sticks in my mind is extended adolescence. This is the host

of Revive Our Hearts, Nancy De Moss Walgymouth.

Do you know what I mean by that?

Have you heard that term perhaps?

People just not growing up.

And there are a number of people have been talking about this.

It's been in secular and Christian thinking as well.

And Al Mulder, for example,

who's the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

in Louisville, Kentucky, has talked about this a number of times.

He says, for example, the transition to adulthood

used to be one of the main goals of the young.

adulthood was seen to be a status worth

fulfilling, at least that's the way it used to be.

Now an entire generation seems to be finding itself locked in the

grip of eternal youth, unwilling or unable to grow up.

Concern about this phenomenon has been building for some time.

Baby boomer parents are perplexed when their adult-aged children move back home, fail to find a job, and

appear to be in no hurry to marry.

Though the current generation of young adults includes some spectacular exceptions who have quickly

moved into the fullness of adult responsibility,

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