Day 14 -- SEAL America

Young Americans are hungry for change. Pastor Karl Barancik and I drove to Jan More's church. There were three times as many young people in the service than older people. The service was all about them.

I was able to preach deeper revelation than normal, because I didn't have to dumb down the message for the older generation. Young people have the ability to grasp the most profound concepts. We err in thinking that they want to be entertained every minute adn bribed to attend church with pizza and video games. Young people are hungry for truth, significance and relevance.

My promise has always been, "I will never talk down to you, I will never talk down to you, and I will never call you kids." There is no such thing as a teenager. In America we have created a cultural subset that is not biblical, and needs to be fixed. There are only two catagories: children and adults. What we classify as "teenager" are young adults, and should be treated as such.

I cringe every time I hear athe question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" A better question is, "What are you all about -- what turns you on -- where are you going with your life?" They are not sub-humans, waiting to morf into real humans when then reach some arbitrary age. Our American society has created a peter-pan generation of sub-adults with arrested development. Some, especially young men, are still behave as adolescents even in their forties... ridiculous! Whose fault is that?

In an earlier When we were an agrarian nation, young adults worked beside their parents. They learned the value of work, and shouldered responsibility. The need for meaning and revelance hasn't gone away -- it's being ignored. That's why the sub-cultures spring up, because young people are not invited into our main-stream society. They hear, in many different ways, "What do you know, you're just a kid?"

I'll tell you what they know: They know hyprocracy when they see it. They know religion has no power. They know the problems in America were not their doing. They know America needs to be fixed, and they are being left out of the process. "Here, have a pizza and watch this video while your leaders allow this country to become even more intolerable."

My mission is to empower young Americans to participate in the renewal -- now! SEAL America is for everyone who loves God and wants to see America restored.

John said, "Young men [and women], I have called you because you are strong." The older men and women are called because they have more experience. Experience is something you can't get in the classroom. You get it in the crucible of life. Strength and wisdom is what must have. That means we need older and younger adults working together to effect change in our natioon.

SEAL America is not a youth movement. It is for all generations of Amerrican Christians. We must work side by side and shoulder the responsibility, equally. I invite the young adults of America to take hold of this vision. It's your opportunity to position America for real, lasting change, and seal or blessings.