Welcome to the 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're going through the first book of the Bible,

Genesis. In a relay race the four fastest runners don't always win. The winning

team is the one that gets the baton around the track the fastest without that baton ever touching the ground.

Now passing the baton from runner to runner is crucial and that's why a team spends so much time practicing the handoff.

Christians are in a relay race. We're passing

something far more precious than a six inch metal tube. The baton that we're

passing is faith in King Jesus. He's the only good and wise King.

The responsibility of every Christian, of every church community, of every parent

is to hand off our faith in Christ to the next generation.

Judges, chapter 2 verse 10 says this.

After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors,

another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel.

A whole generation grows up that knows God but doesn't know God.

That has head knowledge but not heart knowledge. They

knew of God but they didn't know God in a personal life-changing way. Who dropped

the baton? Well the emphasis here is on the adults, the parents, the church

community. They're the ones that fail to pass on their faith to the kids. The church is only one generation from extinction. Now I don't

say that to be an alarmist. I'm just saying that's the challenge that every generation

faces. If we drop the baton that God has given us, maybe it will be written about our kids that they never knew the Lord or what he had done.

We're in the middle of a series through the book of Genesis.

Abraham and Sarah have passed the baton of faith to Isaac and Isaac briefly takes

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