ARE YOUR KIDS 'Real-World' READY?

Group, Jan/Feb 2005 by Lawrence, Rick

Soon, when kids are driving alone in their car, they'll hear something and a little voice inside will ask, Is that really true? When that happens, you'll have helped change the way they engage with their culture and opened up a new, deeply relevant phase in their relationship with God.

1 The examples of Jesus engaging his culture include: 1. Jesus picking wheat on the Sabbath. 2. Jesus overturning the tables of the moneychangers in the Temple. 3. Jesus allowing a known prostitute to crash his party and wash his feet with her tears and hair. 4. Jesus telling people to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's. 5. Jesus turning water into wine at the Cana wedding.

RICK LAWRENCE has been editor of group for 17 years.