Many Christian parents worry about how to best pass on the faith to their children.

Sadly, statistics suggest they should.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

This is Breakpoint.

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.

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 and 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.

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