THIS IS THE GENERATION!!

According to the Durham Public School website, there are between 16,000 and 17,000 kids in 6th-12th grade. According to the Department of Education website, there is somewhere between 14 and 15 million students enrolled in high schools across the country. The International Mission Board website lists the Unreached People Groups at just over 6,000. Now my math skills are shaky at best but if I am right then if less than 1% of the students go to the nations then we will reach every people group in the world and that is why I get so excited to think about student ministry today. They are going to reach the world with the Gospel and they are going to bring God great glory in doing it. They are more outwardly focused and globally aware than any generation in history. Social justice initatives are at an all-time high. Probably 98% of students today have Facebook and the numbers for Twitter and Skype are growing rapidly. They have unlimited reach throughout the world because of the internet. They can also be anywhere in the world in within a day's travel because of airplanes. I believe in this generation and I see the potential within them, if I was an NBA GM then students would be my first round draft picks. They have so many talents and other resources that it is scary to think what they could do if they put their minds to it. Would you take a second today and pray for student pastors, that they would proclaim the Gospel clearly week in and week out? That they would live it out in front of students and that students would come to know Christ in a real and personal way? Pray for the students, that God would give them big faith and bold dreams to accomplish things for His glory. Pray that the give up on the American Dream for something bigger and something much better. THIS IS THE GENERATION AND THEY WILL CHANGE THE WORLD! We just better make sure they do it for the Gospel and not for something or somebody else.