My One Word for 2022 is Faith. Like many parents, I want to build a lasting faith in my kids.
In the Summer of 2016, our Youth Pastor (Kyle Wilson) gave me a copy of Dr. Kara Powell and Dr. Chap Clark’s Sticky Faith.
They started the book with these “Not-So-Sticky-Faith” realities:
- 40-50% of kids who graduate from a church or youth group will fail to stick with their faith in college.
- Only 20% of college students who leave the faith planned to do so during high school. The remaining 80% intended to stick with their faith but didn’t.
- Somewhere between 30-60% of youth group graduates who abandon their faith and the church return to both in their late twenties.
- Each month, just less than 50% of full-time college students binge drink, abuse prescription drugs, and/or abuse illegal drugs.
- College seniors have an average of nearly seven hookups during their collegiate careers, with 28% of them hooking up ten times or more.
Sticky Faith leads our kids to a different future.
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