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"This article is reprented by permission from Leading Ideasa free e-newsletter from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership of Wesley Theological Seminary and available at Lewis Center for Church Leadership"
Here is the site for the orginal article Helping Youth Have a Faith of Their Own. Originally published Feb. 8, 2012.

Helping Youth Have a Faith of Their Own

The fact that youth participate in church less as they get older and often are not present in church as young adults can lead church leaders to assume they lack religious interest. A new book growing out of the National Study of Youth and Religion challenges that assumption. Sociologists Lisa Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton found that older teens and young adults see great significance in religion though not always in institutional forms of religious life.

In their book A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of America’s Adolescents (Oxford University Press, 2011), the authors follow up with 2,530 young people, age 16 to 21, surveyed about their faith and religious practices at two points in time. The authors identified five types of religious identity among these young persons.

Abiders (20 percent). These are the adolescents with the highest levels of religious interest and practice. They not only believe in God; they pray regularly, attend services, volunteer, and are most likely to say their religion is the only true faith.

Adapters (20 percent). This group shows high levels of personal religiosity. But compared to the Abiders, they are more accepting of other people’s faiths and attend religious services more sporadically. The Adapters are most likely of all the groups to help others in need.

Assenters (31 percent). These teens say they believe in God, but they are minimally engaged with their faith. Religion is tangential to other aspects of their lives.

Avoiders (24 percent). They believe in God but do not engage in any religious practice. Their God is a distant one, and they often do not name a religious affiliation.

Atheists (5 percent). They do not believe in God and do not attend services.

Meaning for Congregations

What might this mean for congregations wanting to be sensitive to the faith perspectives of youth? We know that participation in formal religious services means little to many youth. They do not necessarily see themselves as less religious because they attend worship less often. The church is often not their primary community of meaning during these years.  

The writers suggest that congregations can support youth as they refine their religious identity with an approach called “scaffolding.” Scaffolding creates a context in which youth can participate at a level just beyond where they are currently. Instead of asking youth to go where they are not ready to go, they are helped to grow from where they are. Hallmarks of all such efforts must be honesty and acknowledgement of the role of doubt in faith.

All people have distinctive issues and needs at various life stages. One lesson from this research is the importance of supporting youth in appropriate ways during these critical years.

Lovett H. Weems, Jr.

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Napolitano: "This Particular Pope ... Is Somewhere Between A Communist With A Lowercase 'C' And A Marxist With An Uppercase 'M'". 

NAPOLITANO: I am sighing because the Holy Father is a challenge for traditionalist Roman Catholics, of which I am one. Particularly, traditionalists who came of age under John Paul II and then under Benedict XVI. Who, though they had impulses that were not exactly Ayn Rand on capitalism, were far more into philosophy and theology, and far less into the economy ... This particular Pope, who has proclaimed himself a Peronist, is somewhere between a communist with a lowercase "c" and a Marxist with an uppercase "M." At the same time he is trying to be a Roman Catholic -- uppercase "R," uppercase "C." 

The Pope is infallible on faith in morals. Thank God it is just limited to faith and morals because he is, he is -- he sounds like a left-wing professor at the London School of Economics when he blames the mass migration on economic inequality. 

http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/15/foxs-andrew-napolitano-calls-pope-francis-a-com/205560

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Obamacare is a Recipe for Death Care!

      There are millions of Americans who believe Obama is eligible to be a US President even though he stated his father is a foreign-born Kenyan and Muslim and that he and his alleged dad are Subjects of Great Britain.  It's public knowledge that Obama stated that he lived in Indonesia and he was adopted by a foreign-born stepdad. So, how does Congress, the Senate, US Justices, Federal Judges, DOJ, and law enforcement at the highest levels, justify eligibility under US Constitutional law as well as the State's Identification Laws.  After all, every U.S. Citizen must comply with these laws, including public servants, until 2008!  How is it that he can be paid with taxpayer dollars without being properly vetted and identified is the million dollar question!  Millions of Americans now believe that eligibility doesn't matter and that Article II and the vetting requirements are obsolete! Yet, they approve of Obamacare imposed on Americans as a good thing while those who forced Obamacare upon the citizens, i.e.,  Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Congress, Senators, Justices, and their families, exempt themselves from the unaffordable Obamacare mandates and punishments.

 

Furthermore, the only thing that is becoming obsolete in the near future for Americans are U.S. Natural Born Citizens. The births of US Natural Born Citizens.  God. Christianity.  Judea-Christian Prayers.  One Nation Under God. Morals. Truth.  Integrity. US Constitutional laws.  The BIll of Rights. A majority race. Western Civilization.  It's my opinion that Obamacare is a recipe for death care!  In fact,  America's history is being changed through public schools.  Kids are being indoctrinated into foreign history and religions. Parental Rights denied.  Mandated chemical-laden vaccinations.  Privacy denied.  Quality health care rationed and denied.  Medicare reduced.  Social Security Benefits threatened.   America's Judea-Christian history, traditions and roots are being uprooted after 236 years. Should Americans not ask if too many Americans are too passive about an  unvetted man, unvetted 3x, elected into the highest office in the land granting himself absolute power so he can circumvent US Constitional laws, Congress, and the Will of the Majority of Americans, by writing excessive Executive Orders?  How is it not an abuse of power to write excessive Executive Orders contrary to constitutional laws and behave in a dictator-like manner without any objection by the legislative or judicial branches of government?

The circumvention of the judicial and legislative branches of government renders them "meaningless" and  eliminates Checks and Balances.  Shouldn't Americans be concerned that Obama's regime is carrying on the same agendas as the Clinton regime?  The Clintons and Obama support Hillarcare morphed into Obamacare.  The U.N.'s Agenda 21, Small Arms Treaty, Rights of the Child, and the NWO's inner circle agendas.  Their goals are to pilfer the wealth of America through redistribution and depopulation programs.  How is it that American people are forced to work hard and pay taxes while the federal government is using US taxes to build up the Muslim Brotherhood nations and their political and religious ideologies, as well as, Communist Nations?  How is it that the federal government is supplying foreign enemy nations with weapons, and Fighter Jets, while attempting to deny weapons to Americans?  Since the Clinton regime, the White House has been shipping off U.S.  jobs, technology, and manufacturing companies.  They opened up the borders and granted China access to the Long Beach Port tariff free.  Now, Americans are faced with Obama's rogue government and his threats of punishment for non-compliance if Americans don't  pay-up-front for the unaffordable Obamacare.  Excessive taxation.  Denying and rationing Health Care services under Medicare.  Americans are witnessing the destruction of the greatest health care system in the world!

 

     Therefore, the most explosive parody of how the United States of America is being economically and militarily ruined and set up for civil unrest through depopulation programs that are contrary to Western Civilization, the Bible, and America's lifestyle is now released on-line.  Americans are being excessively taxed and their wages diminished as the cost of living and Obamacare take its toll on jobs and wages. Obama's regime is creating a land of the rich and the poor and destroying the Middle Class, Capitalism, and free enterprise.  Therefore, I've created and written a parody and is a New Release, "Obamacare, Dinosaurs, Red Necks, and Radicals" written for this time in our history exposing the truth through fiction. But, Obama isn't a fictional character and he and his unconstitutional and bold agendas are real.  This parody is a warning to every loyal American of how Obamacare is "Death Care."  The short adventure story is a Keepsake for the years 2008-2012 with the hope that future generations will understand how a nation can be infiltrated and changed or wiped out. 

 

    The reader is enlightened about Obamacare as they join Noah, a prominent Professor of Archaeology, on an adventure into a remote jungle in search of the lost Tablets which were left behind for mankind.  The hidden Tablets must be discovered before the end of 2013 a.d. or they shall remain untouched by mankind.  The ancient Tablets disclose how the Judea-Christian Dinosaur Nation was seduced and mesmerized by a mysterious dinosaur, Obamasaurus, who suddenly appeared in their nation as if by magic.  Eventually, Obamasaurus uses his charms and makes false promises in order to gain power and control over their nation.  He came to steal their land for the migration of foreign enemies.  He uses his charms, smile, and unbountiful powers to indoctrinate the youth, enslave his opponents, and depopulate the majority of Judea-Christian Dinosaur citizens. In 2008, Noah sought adventure as the chosen one to complete a mission in a remote jungle in search of the ancient and hidden dinosaur Tablets that exposed the Legend of how the Judea-Christian Dinosaur Nation was enslaved and depopulated through mandates. The ancient dinosaur Tablets protect the secret message which Noah must decode before it's too late and discloses if mankind shall survive or be depopulated.  The parody reflects Obamacare and the mandates and requirements that are being painfully inflicted upon the American people with excessive taxation and punshment.  Please share the important message on the dangers of Obamacare included within the story, "Obamacare, Dinosaurs, Red Necks, and Radicals." You're invited to read complimentary pages on www.amazon.com

 

 

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“He has betrayed some of the people all of the time; all of the people some of the time; and even though he’s been caught betraying the truth on at least 1,000 significant matters*** . . . in accord with the teachings of Saul Alinsky, Obama continues to seek to betray all Americans all the time.” Rajjpuut
Obama’s Friends, Ends, and Means Become Transparent;
and Abhorrent as Americans Slowly Become
Aware of the Identity of the “Real Barack Obama”
Three of Barack Obama’s most surprising support groups in the 2008 presidential election were White voters earning $200,000 or more, Roman Catholics, and Jewish voters. Obama won the election with a 6+% edge over John McCain overall, but among wealthy Whites had an 8.5% edge; a 9% edge as far as Roman Catholics; and with an incredible 60% edge among Jews. It now appears that these three groups; and Independents which he won by a 16 point edge; and women who gave him a 12 point edge are NOW abandoning Obama and his Democrats in droves. People will do that to a politician they regard as treacherous. In truth Obama has betrayed some of the people all of the time; all of the people some of the time; and even though he’s been caught betraying the truth on probably 1,000 significant matters*** . . . in keeping with the teachings of Saul Alinsky, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. continues to seek to betray all Americans all the time.
Before we get to the meat of this discussion about Barack Obama, let us clear up two important terms: “Progressives” and “Liberals.” Rajjpuut is now amending his definition of the term “Progressive” from “someone who wants to ‘progress’ beyond the ‘outdated’ and ‘severely flawed’ Constitution of the United States”. Rajjpuut sees now that his old definition is inadequate. The new definition adds this shocker: “Progressive from malice wish to overthrow the United States, a land they hate.” So what, then, is a liberal? Liberals are the unthinking storm troopers of the progressive movement. To be more accurate: liberals are goody-two shoes who are determined to correct the world’s ills by stealing (taxing) other people’s money and power over their own lives; liberals are well-intentioned with your money, of course, but because they are unwilling to think, they are natural cannon fodder for the Progressives who can and will do the thinking for the liberals around them. The chief political produce of the progressive and the chief political diet of the liberal are LIES.
In America a massive amount of evil all begins with liberal White guilt. Now Rajjpuut, who has never owned a slave is not the sort of fellow who feels guilt about much he does, or doesn’t do; or about what he says or thinks – prefers to live life in the moment doing his best . . . but the doctrine of White guilt is one of the more important ones among about 60 key politically correct doctrines that progressives have taught to silly Whites interested in coming to terms with their inner need to feel despicable and unworthy. Now Rajjpuut’s kin folk arrived in America in 1854 and went to raising kids and farms and never owned anybody . . . but just for the hell of it, let’s pretend that the original Rajjpuut to set foot in North America owned 7,000 slaves; beat them daily; raped their women nightly; made a sadistic game out of splitting up families by selling the parents off in two different directions; and sometimes even spit on the sidewalk and took the lord’s name in vain. If that were all 100% true, what in God’s name does it have to do with me here and now?
Do the actions of some crap-head in the mid-19th Century, dead at least a hundred years now . . . do his actions justify anyone’s support of Barack Obama’s efforts to destroy America? Does that long ago evil past justify some present-day progressive crap-head calling me “racist” or “bigoted” or “stupid” or “an extremist” when my life history says I’m not only NOT anything I’m accused of, but that I’m a whole lot more intelligent politically and fiscally and Constitutionally then the top 10,000 of my detractors? Now this is easily understood and pitifully common knowledge, but somehow 53% of all Americans and 48% of White Americans were recruited by a man of absolutely zero accomplishment and a negative value of integrity to participate willingly in their own political and economic annihilation . . . a man whose basis for charisma is that he won’t admit he’s half-White; grew up four years in Muslim schools; and is an out and out Marxist (because surely if he admitted all those truths, he would seem much less charismatic, no?) . . . are we expressing this correctly? And just to kick the “racism accusers” while they’re down: didn’t Obama win the Black vote by 92% while McCain won the Whites by 4%? The real racists are evident, eh?
Up to now we’ve seen a shucking and jiving caricature of the real Barack Obama . . . now as it becomes apparent that his policies have blown back in his face and in the faces of the liberal idiots that voted with him (and I include Republican Senators Snow and Collins among those idiots, as their day is coming) . . . now we are from time to time seeing the emergence of the real Barack Obama . . . a hate-filled pathetic pygmy of a man . . . where is that vaunted charisma now? A president who calls other Americans “enemies” has lost all charisma. A president who treats the American way of life and all Americans as the enemy oppressors in some sick notion of imperialism against the 3rd World which he champions is a sick-sick-sick individual. Our founders could never have envisioned how large, tyrannical, intrusive, wasteful and self-perpetuating our federal government could become—nor could they have imagined an American president using that bloated government to destroy the American free market system.
The media have made a big deal of recent polling data showing Barack Obama losing serious support among Independents, Women, Jews, rich Whites, Hispanics, young people and college graduates. Let’s clear this up here and now, courtesy of the much-reviled TEA Party movement’s forced awareness upon the electorate: Barack Obama is suffering serious loss of support from every single important group in America except racist Blacks . . . and who knows, perhaps the unfair treatment of Juan Williams at the hands of the progressive idiots at NPR will even open some important eyes among wise Blacks . . . hey, if Jesse Jackson can see the light, there’s hope, there’s hope.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
***Progressive Big Lies (the most important tool of the PROPAGANDIST) have become accepted truths because Americans are too lazy to search out the truth for themselves . . . for example:

http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/10/26/obama,__to_gop,_%e2%80%9cride_in_back%e2%80%9d;_no_one_tells_truth.thtml

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