This Explains What's Going On In Our Nation | Ep. 198
Takeaways with Kirk Cameron
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4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The central battle today is not between Republicans and Democrats or red states and blue states or even religious and non-religious people. |
| 0:07.7 | It's between people who recognize that there is truth and that we can discover it as opposed to people who believe that truth is up to the individual. |
| 0:17.8 | We're joined now by Dr. Jeff Myers, President of Summit Ministries. |
| 0:22.5 | Summit Ministries is a great organization that's supporting and equipping young people to form a biblical worldview. |
| 0:29.8 | My daughter went to Summit Ministries, and I'm so glad that she did. |
| 0:33.3 | Jeff, thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:35.1 | Kurt, great to be with you. |
| 0:36.9 | So can you round that out a little bit and talk a little bit more about exactly what you're |
| 0:41.5 | accomplishing there at Summit Ministries in Colorado? |
| 0:45.3 | Well, you know, Kirk, 75% of young adults today say that they struggle to find a sense of purpose |
| 0:50.8 | in life. |
| 0:52.3 | 54% of them say they regularly struggle with anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. |
| 0:58.0 | So they're wrestling with purpose. |
| 1:00.0 | At the same time, they don't know where to find answers from the Bible. |
| 1:04.0 | Only 2% of American young adults have a biblical worldview. |
| 1:08.0 | So at Summit Ministries, we bring them together for two weeks at a time. |
| 1:11.9 | We bring together these top Christian thought leaders, many of whom have been guests on your |
| 1:16.2 | show. And they spend that time speaking with, lecturing to, and then having dialogues with |
| 1:22.7 | these young adults, helping them find answers to all of their toughest questions about their faith. |
| 1:28.0 | And this summer, Kirk, we had the veteran social researcher George Barna, study our students, |
| 1:34.5 | and he found that when they leave, whereas 2% of their peers in the culture have a biblical worldview, |
| 1:39.5 | 86% of the students who come through Summit Ministries end up having a biblical worldview by the |
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