The millennial generation consists of people ages 18 to 29. Americans in that age group are significantly less religious than older Americans. The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life notes that a quarter of these young people are not affiliated with any particular faith. The group is less likely to go to church than the generation before them… Generation X, those born from 1961 to 1981. Also, fewer young people today say that religion is important in their lives.
However, in some cases, not much differs between the millennials and previous generations. The beliefs among young adults about life after death and the existence of heaven and hell closely resemble that of older people. The percentage of young adults who say that they pray on a daily basis matches the portion of young people who said the same in previous decades.
Do you see anything hopeful in those figures? Does any of that do us any good unless we trade religion for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
Here’s the challenge for any generation. What do you want your legacy to be? Will it be one of only a great career or a great marriage or a life of service to your country? Will it be a life of generating great riches and wealth? Will it be a legacy of helping find true peace on earth? If so, what will all of those noble accomplishments mean when we lay our head on a pillow and inhale our last breath.
We can rush around and be busy and achieve great things, but we will still come to that moment when we leave this world. Is it too much of a gamble to just think this or will that suffice when we die? Or, will a dose of that old-time, Bible-directed living for God be best?
This is Carl Ramsey and that’s Another View of the News.
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