You know I love the first two words of what's commonly referred to as the Lord's

prayer in which Jesus refers to God as our father.

In so many ways a parent-child relationship is meant to reflect God's love for us.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werther who leads our parenting department here

and we're going to hear a bit more today from a conversation

that Jim Daly had with Mark Matlock and David Kinaman. Now they've done extensive

research through the Barna Group on how young adults are doing regarding their faith.

David and Mark welcome back.

It's so good to be here.

I think you can sense a little bit of energy here because again so many of us

I'm living it and I know literally hundreds of thousands if not a few million of the listeners are living it as well.

We left off last time as we began to look at the five attributes we covered one which was the intimacy

with Jesus Mark add to that for the new listeners that didn't hear last time

expand on that one yeah you know you would think that if we are going to church with any kind of frequency

that we're experiencing Jesus in the same way that we're having fellowship with him.

But what we found is that just isn't true. Every teenager that goes to church,

every young adult that goes to church isn't having the same experience with

Christ. And those resilience, which were our kind of exemplars for this, they are able to clear away a lot of the kind of

religious clutter that's developed and accumulated in our church services and our

programs and our lives that kind of take us away from experiencing that and they're able to kind of get right to the heart of that and one of the things that I think is is just really interesting in this moment is really looking at the relationship with Christ.

We always say it's a relationship, not a religion,

Christianity, but do we always talk about it that way?

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