Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case-making program

hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating

cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a

decade. His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline. For more

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Now here's your host Jay Warner Wallace.

Thanks for joining us at Cole Case Christianity.

I am Jay Warner Wallace. Here in season six of our show on an

NRB TV we've been talking about young people. Now most of the time I worked as

an investigator, especially those years I was working in cold cases. I was also bivocational as a pastor. And most of my audiences even today are young people.

Gen Z we typically think of between the three and 20, they're usually if you've got a high school or a junior higher in your life, anywhere in your life.

Maybe you're a parent of a junior higher or a high schooler.

Maybe you're a youth pastor.

Maybe you're a Christian educator.

Maybe you're just a member of a church and you look

across the aisle there is somebody sitting over there who's a high schooler and

you're thinking to yourself poi Christianity seems to be on the decline in America.

Well why do you think it's declining? It's declining amongst

that age demographic. That's by far the demographic young people that are more

likely and are documented as leaving the church.

If we care about the future of the church,

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