How can parents reach their teenage or adult children if they've walked away from the faith? In this video, our friend Greg Koukl shares practical advice that will help you engage with prodigals that have turned from Christianity.
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@amandamccallum6796 Says:
When teens and young adults leave the faith it is because they can't reconcile their secular education with their religion. It took me until I was disabled and watching YouTube videos of scientists explaining flood geology, cosmologists comparing the big bang to God saying let there be light, archeological evidence for the exodus in Saudi Arabia, balls of sulphur in the destroyed city and so much more evidence that could have been presented to me in church growing up but I was only taught the stories without the evidence.
@jangaroo777 Says:
We continue to pray for the prodigals 🙏My granddaughter had little self respect or self love, I paid for her to go through Christian group Transformations for 12 mths ( at her request ). She met a girl & started SS relationship. God in his mercy convicted her heart and she moved away from that girl & in with me. She said as time passed the conviction intensified & became quite painful she couldn’t ignore it. After some months of going to
Church and doing well in her walk with the Lord she met a young mum at church and today they are living together plus she’s transitioning 😭 and doesn’t talk to me anymore. It’s heartbreaking 💔
@mariewagner8645 Says:
Where can I find the discussion in full? Thank you so much.
@terjehansen0101 Says:
What absolute horsedung this is. The name "Cross Examined" suggests you have someone on the back foot for some reason. Who ? Children ? Teens ? For people who can't answer the simplest questions you seem to think very highly of yourselves.
@Thundawich Says:
Isn't it kind of a problem that christianity seems to have fostered a culture where many parents don't have the inclination to ask their children about why they left the church and instead they go and talk to authority figures about it?
I mean your advice is spot on, I'm just concerned about why it needs to be said in the first place.
@logicalatheist1065 Says:
Better to teach your children to be critical thinkers... Religion's like Christianity get everything wrong.
@marcus3457 Says:
Sadly I have one who walked away, and has walked away specifically from his family who cared for him to pursue basically hedonism. He knows he can come to me when he is serious, but I will not speak to him under conditions, or meet his demands how he wants to be spoken to. It's sad, but I have a wife and another son to care for, and I have my relationship with Christ that trumps all of that. He is going to have to learn the hard way.
@JamesRichardWiley Says:
Make sure you explain that the consequences of thinking differently from scripture is eternal torture.
@The-F.R.E.E.-J. Says:
The question few seem to want to confront is: Were they ever believers in the first place? In other words, is it even _possible,_ once one has partaken of the Spirit of God, to return again to the world?
@nothingbutthetruth613 Says:
I'm always so amazed when people say things like "they walked away from christ" or "they rejected him". Christianity demands only one thing from you and that's it. Believe and you're done. There's no laws or anything that is associated with that. All you need is belief and you are in heaven. If so, why would anybody go through the trouble of proactively rejecting Jesus? What good is it? There isn't any action you need to do for Jesus. It's all internal. So how could anyone walk away? What did they do that made them someone who "walks away"?
@gi169 Says:
Thank you CE
@kinggenius930 Says:
Why does it have to be about the child believing Christianity to be false? Said child may simply have discovered that Christianity cannot sufficiently back up its claims.
@somerandom3247 Says:
people are leaving christianity because they realise it isnt true.
They grow out of the indocrination they recieved as a child and choose to discard chrisrtianity in favor of the truth.
@somethingtothinkabout167 Says:
We need to model the things we believe least others think we do not actually believe them or want to share in our hypocracy. This requires a lot of humility, passion and empathy.
@ta3p-theannex3project84 Says:
When indoctrination fails. Or commen sense comes.
@kicnbac Says:
My daughter believed in multiple gods. It took me around 3 yrs to get through her. I had to do it slowly because she would say I don't want to talk about it. So I would wait about a month and bring it up again. Now she is, a100% believer
@GarthPlamping Says:
As a Pastor of many who are in this situation. Please do more content on how to bring the gospel once again to your prodigal children. This was a great taste. Please do more!!
@jamesw4250 Says:
Answer. You dont. Teach them about Christianity and other religions and how religion gets everything wrong. Help them think critically because jesus story is false and the bible is wrong about every claim it makes.
@cosmonaut9540 Says:
3 out of touch christian grifters trying to talk about atheists is pretty funny and pathetic.
@mattslater2603 Says:
Frank: IF it were true.
Wow. Guess Frank doesnt know, after all.
@RangerRyke Says:
We’ll said. I’m greatful my parents are willing to ask me why I left a really try to understand my reasoning.
@willievanstraaten1960 Says:
Frank: “If it were true”
Seems Frank is not sure that it is true. It is nothing more than a career for Frank.
@willievanstraaten1960 Says:
The information age is to blame. Young people get educated with factual information and then reject superstition
@greghillmusic Says:
Prodigal is used wrong here...."characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure"
This video is about people who have atheist children...
@stephenkaake7016 Says:
I am Jesus Christ Returned, I can bring those who have left back into the flock, but I am here to Judge the Nations, I can't save everyone
@Godlimate Says:
Christianity is true because “man is the measure of all things”.
Like any institution, it presents a worldview product supported by a body of knowledge that authorities refine and crystallize as truth.
Similarly, non-religious institutions also evolve their beliefs and principles based on the authority of the people, as seen in constitutional referendums, education and health systems, and so on.
Both cases involve the process of fine-tuning beliefs through the authority of those involved, whether religious or secular.
@jeffphelps1355 Says:
We live in a world that teaches are youths to be "high minded" a modern term would be narcissism.
@truthgiver8286 Says:
It's easy to discuss christianity with your prodigal child you start with once upon a time.
@larzman651 Says:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD JESUS and shalt believe in thy heart that GOD raised him from the dead thou shalt be Saved 🙌 for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation
@Gek1177 Says:
The reality is that the smarter and better educated your child is the more likely you will be to see them leave the faith.
That's actually one of the biggest problems with Frank's brand of apologetics. He sometimes makes really obviously false claims about science to support Christianity and if your kid grows up believing those claims and then learns they were false all along they will obviously start to question Christianity.
Asking real questions about the factual basis for Christianity is all it takes to make an atheist.
@aaronmonroe7932 Says:
●Matthew 24
15 “The day is coming when you will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about—the sacrilegious object that causes desecration[d] standing in the Holy Place.” (Reader, pay attention!) 16 “Then those in Judea must flee to the hills. 17 A person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. 18 A person out in the field must not return even to get a coat. 19 How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days. 20 And pray that your flight will not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For there will be greater anguish than at any time since the world began. And it will never be so great again. 22 In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God’s chosen ones.
23 “Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah,’ or ‘There he is,’ don’t believe it. 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones. 25 See, I have warned you about this ahead of time.
26 “So if someone tells you, ‘Look, the Messiah is out in the desert,’ don’t bother to go and look. Or, ‘Look, he is hiding here,’ don’t believe it! 27 For as the lightning flashes in the east and shines to the west, so it will be when the Son of Man[e] comes. 28 Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.[f]
29 “Immediately after the anguish of those days,
the sun will be darkened,
the moon will give no light,
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.[g]
30 And then at last, the sign that the Son of Man is coming will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.[h] 31 And he will send out his angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from all over the world[i]—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.
32 “Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches bud and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near. 33 In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know his return is very near, right at the door. 34 I tell you the truth, this generation (2,000 years ago) will not pass from the scene until all these things take place.
@mattr.1887 Says:
If the goal is for your kid to be a professing Christian at whatever the cost, then I can see how videos like this would make sense. Personally, I think God and morality are way bigger and stronger than Christianity.
@thatomofolo452 Says:
He leaves the 99 and goes after the 1 🤗❤🤗💫
@hansdemos6510 Says:
I think research like the regular Pew surveys indicates that many people in the West stop believing the religions they grew up in when they learn that the religious teachings of their youth are not supported by the evidence when they get to high school and college.
@festushaggen2563 Says:
I'd want to know what sin he's leaving Christ for. I can't imagine there's a will to leave God for nothing. Someone or something else is drawing him away and it's not a good thing for a good reason.
@NickyTheLesser Says:
My child never made it to adulthood.
How I explained “Christianity” to my constantly suffering child was - “Well, despite us praying constantly for relief from your pain, and NOTHING happening, god still loves you- so grit your teeth through your pain- until we both dîe!” 🤦🏽♂️
@imraneamoura1027 Says:
The Bible is the most printed, sold and read book … but …
In the United States, the Bible withdrawn from elementary schools in Utah because considered “pornographic”
72,000 school children are deprived of a Bible under a very conservative law in 2022. According to parents, the book would contain stories of incest, bestiality, genital mutilation.
If I have become a Christian and one day my daughter asks me or begs me to read her some sacred verses from the Holy Bible and by chance I open it and I come across these very sacred words: “She was on fire for harlots , Whose PENIS were like those of donkeys, And t whose flow is like the flow of horses. ” (Ameeeen) (Ezekiel 23:20 - The English Standard Version) and asks me to explain those damn words to her, what am I going to tell her !!!?
1-a parabola,
2-a symbol,
3- ask her to go to bed,
4-explain the verse to her as it is,
5-look for her a prejudice to get out of trouble...
And this is just one example because there are many verses like that in the bible especially in the chapters of 'Song of Solomon', 'Ezekiel 16' and 'Ezekiel 23).
And that is why Georges Bernard Shaw (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925) said one day about the Bible: “It is the most dangerous book on earth. Keep it locked up. Do not leave it within reach of innocent hands”.
Reading the Bible to children leads to discussing the morality of sex. The Bible can thus reflect the state of mind of the censors.
The Plain Truth (October 1977)
@sirena9167 Says:
I know why. It’s the same reason that prompted me towards God is because of the suffering we had endured at the hands of her father. We prayed for him to change now after 18 years he does but now there’s nothing but destruction in the aftermath. She feels that God didn’t answer her prayers (which I didn’t know about until years later) and because it seems God didn’t answer her prayers so therefore he wasn’t real
@Yipper64 Says:
0:42 yeah that seems like a good question. I was raised a christian and if anything came into my own with it. I have a friend who's been struggling with his faith, and I keep telling him to watch Mike Winger and such like you, because that's what strengthened my faith, is just knowing how solid the evidence is for it. But beyond that im clueless as to what to do for him.
@imraneamoura1027 Says:
When the Muslim wants to explain Tawheed to his son, he can do it in a minute.
When the Christian wants to explain the trinity to his son, he spends hours and hours and maybe years and years and when the father finds himself tired, he says to his son: you just have to believe in it even if you don't. can't understand it and that's enough ...
@junbiok7188 Says:
Choice Maker:
The impossibility of following atheism to its logical conclusion.
Either something came from nothing or the universe is eternal.
The former is immediately discarded as an impossibility.
If the universe happened just because it could, or because it had to, it would have happened before it did.
As it had an infinity of before where all potential of random chance or function had been maxed out.
But it's impossible for something to happen before it did, or without a before it did.
This impossibility can be avoided by the cause being neither, but God.
-Doesn't God too had to have caused the universe before he did?
No reason to as if its by God, then its neither just because it could nor did it have to.
But by choice which is under binding by a being who is eternal.
So there is God, a possibility where the contrary, no God, is impossible.
Because besides:
-By choice from an eternal source.
It's impossible for the universe to happen by anything other than:
-The self-refuting possibilities which is either random chance or function.
-Why is X impossible? Prove it.
Because, and it is proven by the non-existence of a possibility for X.
Same way a possibility to undo the past does not exist, so it's impossible to undo the past.
So by the law of excluded middle, the universe is caused by God.
-Special pleading.
Not so since the very definition of a non-being which cannot make a choice would be contradicted.
-Vacuum fluctuations, anything non-being.
Is still something which falls under either random chance or function.
-What if the universe is in an eternal loop?
Progress without a beginning.
There can't be a starting point in the model and it's impossible to get anywhere without a starting point.
-I don't know.
Assumes the existence of the possibility that God does not exist.
-No evidence/proof. Demonstrate.
The factual basis which are the philosophical/logical absolute premises are evidence/proof.
And an explanation of the implications of those are a demonstration.
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