This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef. We pray that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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What is really burdening my heart and occupying a great deal of my thinking and planning above all

praying is the next generation. In fact, this is not a surprise to those of you who are close to me

and know my heart and we've been talking about this and praying about this. But what really challenged me

in a way that really shook me by the root was an article in the Atlantic Monthly magazine.

That is not a Christian magazine.

So the bottom line of this article is as follows.

There are a handful of lobbyists from the gay, lesbian, and transgender group have been working behind the scene

for a long time underground to change the biblical foundation of over 72 evangelical colleges

in America and succeeding. These colleges were founded and funded by those who took

the authority of the scripture seriously. And what took generations past to build is now in danger

of collapsing before our own eyes.

This is in no way not appreciating the marvelous work of campus ministries all around the country,

all around the nation. But the jolt, to me personally, is being used by the Holy Spirit to challenge my thoughts, strategy,

above all my prayer life for the next generation. In the past, our Christian forebears have

accomplished great and mighty things for God. How? By trusting God, believing God, to empower them to do great things for God.

Throughout biblical history, we see God throughout history use the committed minorities,

not the big and vast numbers, but the tiny small minority, the Moses, the Joshua, the Davids,

and yes, the handful of Galilean fishermen, and it was said of them that they have turned their world upside down,

and their world was nothing but a brutal dictatorship of the Roman emperors who have brutalized

many a Christian.

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