So job one for every Christian parent is what?

Raise your kids to love Jesus.

Yeah, I mean I think every Christian parent, oh you lay in bed at night, you pray, you fret, you worry, you're anxious anxious especially in this day and world what do I need to do

how do I need to be to be you know have a son or daughter who when they're 20 when they're

18 when they're 16 they're standing for Christ.

And I think every parent longs for praise for it and so this is your segment today.

You're going to be really excited about our series coming up. Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships

that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

You can find us at family life today.com.

This is family life today. We've got a doctor in the house.

We've got a doctor in the house.

Dr. Colin, outer bridge? Yeah, outer bridge, Outer like space, bridge like the Golden Gate.

And you are a doctor in what we're talking about today.

Talk about your dissertation.

My wife and I planted a church a couple of years ago with a real passion and desire to reach the next generation

and we wanted to learn a bit about what the research shows that the next generation is looking for in a kind of community and a kind of church and so we

decided to focus that effort not just in planting a church but also by

understanding academically what does the next generation need and so I wrote my

dissertation on looking at unchurched and

de-Churched Gen Z communities across the country.

And we identified some key characteristics that would be helpful and connecting them to the good news of Jesus.

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