Youth and the Church

For many years all the attention of the Church is on adults. Most of the literature that you read on the church is for Adults. The budget is geared around the adults. The attention for most things is on the senior Pastor who works with none other than the adults. Now I am not saying this is bad but I think for far to long the youth and the Church have been separate issues. They rarely interact with each other. Usually they are segregated to some wing of the church where they don't have to be seen or heard and most people don't care a whole lot about what they are doing until something bad happens. But this needs to change. The Church needs the youth and the youth need the Church and the pastoral staff of the body needs to make this happen. We teach adults theology and deep Biblical truth's the same thing that the youth need. There needs to be interaction between generations. There needs to be common ground between generations. Parents need to get involved in their kids lives. And Youth guys need to stop trying to entertain and be kids best friend and teach them the Word and be their Pastor. They need a Shepherd. The Church is in desperate need of some revitalization in the youth ministry area.