It’s common place.
Rarely a day goes by without someone commentating on the declining religious interest of the upcoming millennial generation. Much is debated: Are the statistics reliable? Do they reveal a decline in vital faith, or do they expose a dying religious nominalism being replaced by vital evangelical Christianity? Most perti-nently, what (if anything) do we need to do about it? Well, at God Centered Life Ministries, we are excited to call a new generation to centre their lives upon God.
Focusing on the young
It is critically important that at this moment we focus national and international energies around raising a generation living for God, particularly in the young adult age range. You would have to be have been hiding under rock somewhere not to have heard the prophets of doom. Such prophecies have always struck me as ironic, because many of the leaders in the first church I pastored were in this same age range.
It seems to me, by observation and conversation, that what we are actually witnessing is a renewed focus in this coming generation on spirituality and coherent biblical truth. They want authenticity. They want honesty. They want vulnerability. They do not want slick showmanship and marketed tropes. But they do want God.
Behind the vision of God Centered Life Ministries is research done at Cambridge University regarding the key ideological and doctrinal commitments required to interact with secularism with biblical fidelity and fruitfulness. Those commitments are expressed in our Ten Foundational Principles and in our Statement of Faith, but also in the energy, expertise and orientation of practical servanthood that you find in our extraordinary Ministry Council and staff team. My desire as President and Founder of God Centered Life Ministries is to issue a rallying call, serve the moment and gather a team for the purpose of raising a generation in churches, colleges and culture, living for Christ and his glory. My first and primary calling is to be a pastor. And my energies are distinctly focussed on the preaching of God’s Word. Out of that this ministry has overflowed, and I pray it will advance as God’s wills for his glory.
Exciting times! There is a new website for God Centered Life Ministries, a new app and a renewed focus on providing resources through the Internet for raising a generation living for God, along with a major conference in March 2017.
