Maybe if we hide our heads under the covers it'll go away

George Barna has published the 12 most significant findings from 2006. He did surveys of people in and out of the Church at large. Here is one that should concern every parent and every church leader:

Three out of every four teenagers have engaged in at least one type of psychic or witchcraft-related activity. Among the most common of those endeavors are using a Ouija board, reading books about witchcraft or Wicca, playing games involving sorcery or witchcraft, having a “professional” do a palm reading or having their fortune told. Conversely, during the past year fewer than three out of every 10 churched teenagers had received any teaching from their church about elements of the supernatural.

We do a pitiful job as a church in preparing our young people for the invasion of the supernatural in their lives. We should be helping them understand and experience the reality of the supernatural by an encounter with the miraculous.

That won't happen in most churches. Churches for the most part hope the supernatural will stay outside. But, our teenagers WILL find a way to tap into it. Sadly, they will be vulnerable to the occult if they haven't been taught and exposed to the real thing thru the manifestations of the Spirit of God.

The result of this avoidance is the counterfeit world of the supernatural looks more real to them than the real world of a supernatural Jesus.

It's no wonder that so many of our churches are tepid. Form of religion, denying the power thereof. We hide our head under the covers and pray it all goes away.

The bad news is, it's not going to. The supernatural is real. We are either going to have a flow of the power of the living God with the manifestations of the Holy Ghost or we are going to have tarot cards, palm readers and Ouija boards invading our young peoples lives. We make that choice for them. Just telling them about it won't get it. They must experience it for real.

Time to get off the fence.