"The statistics are astounding. If current trends continue, only 4% of your friends and peers will be Bible-believing Christians by the time they are 18. "
I just received through email, a video promo for a youth leadership summit, depicting the current alarming situation faced by the American youths. The video shows youths holding placard depicting the following statistics.
1/3 of us have been DRUNK in the last month
1 in 4 of us use ILLEGAL DRUGS
8,000 of us contract an STD every day
1 million of us are PREGNANT
340,000 of us get ABORTIONS each year
1 in 10 of us has been RAPED
I will see 14,000 SEXUAL references on TV this year
9 out of 10 of us have seen PORN online
1/2 of us are NO longer VIRGINS
1 in 5 of us has contemplated SUICIDE
Over 1,500 of us KILL ourselves each year
53% of us believe Jesus SINNED
83% of us believe TRUTH IS RELATIVE
ALL OF US need to be REACHED
Something needs to be done to RESCUE this generation. The cry of this GENERATION is too loud to IGNORE.
The statistics are astounding. If current trends continue, researchers say only 4% of this current teen generation will be bible believing CHRISTIANS.
"... begins with [us] ensuring that there are more than just fun and games for kids who are in youth groups in church. [We] need to be equipped to defend the truth."
MAGNITUDE OF THE CRISIS
extracted from the Battle Cry website
ATTACK ON A GENERATION
Today's teens are being attacked by popular culture like no other generation. Hollywood, the music industry, advertisers, and even the mainstream media are using their arsenal of tools to win the battle for our teens' hearts- and so far they are winning! In order to defeat our enemy, we must know how it thinks and understand the weapons it uses. It is critical that we realize how far-reaching the crisis is- and then we must work together to stop it.
TELEVISION
This generation views 16 to 17 hours of television each week and sees on average 14,000 sexual scenes and references each year. That's more than 38 references every day.
INTERNET
This generation spends three hours a day online and is the first to grow up with point-and-click pornography. Almost 90 percent of teens have viewed pornography online at one of the 300,000 adult websites, most while doing homework.
MUSIC
More than 25 percent of teen-targeted radio segments contain sexual content; 42 percent of the top selling CDs contain sexual content
ADVERTISING
With more than $128 billion dollars in their pockets, this generation has been targeted by corporate America, who does everything it can to grow brands and profits without any regard to the moral decay of a generation.
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