Pastor Campbell preached an excellent message on church kids tonight. I won't give you his whole sermon here. But a couple of things stood out for me.
First, there are kids who have saved parents, and who grew up in one of our churches. But they reach their teen years and they leave church and act like sinners. Pastor says that these kids knew the language and knew the routine but they didn't know Christ. They knew right from wrong and they choose wrong. They were cultural Christians. They were Christian in name only. They may have been gifted, but they were never converted.
Second, pastor used the example of the Prodigal Son. Especially, he talked about the older brother. He played by the rules, and he was arrogant in his self examination. He put in the time and did what he was told and evidently that was all that he did. This son lived in the father's house, but he did not have the father's heart.
Being born again is more than joining a church or getting into ministry. All things become new. It is a miracle of a new heart and a new mind. It causes us to serve God no matter what. Being born again in 1973 still is working in my life in 2025. You must be born again to even see the kingdom of God.
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