The significance of Christ in young adults is in what He does through them, not what the youth does, and I suppose that fact can be demonstrated time and time again. One thing that is important about Jesus working through youth is that He is working early in the person’s life, starting the transformation to a great Christian and accomplishing things as the person grows up. Many more years of service and wonder are available to a young person than would be available if they wait until late in life to seek their place in Jesus.

Those who know me know I have a real love for youth. Not only youth, but young adulthood as well. There is a passion to be found in these ages that not only sets them apart and defines them, but offers us glimpses into the future of our faith, if properly cultivated and nurtured.

The call is out there. It has been sounded from the very foundations of all that there is. God is calling. This call is not a casual roll call or an invitation to think about His work, either. This call is a call to arms.

There is a war being waged on the front lines of battle every single day, a war between good and evil, a war over the souls of mankind. A struggle between light and darkness, and one that many times is going on inside ourselves, a pitched battle between right and wrong.

“Life is like a box of chocolates," says a movie quote that is fairly famous now.

Is that really true? Is life really random and things just happen with no plan, no order, no rhyme, and no reason? Do we really “never really know what we’re going to get”? I find the Bible corrects us from this misinformation.

A sling and a stone ... that is what David, a young shepherd boy, used to fell a mighty warrior in his people’s enemy. He used something so simple to defeat a champion of the enemy, and he was a mere boy at the time. It is shown in 1  Samuel 17. What was in this moment? What made the simple become so effective, and the seemingly impossible come to life?

In "A Sling and a Stone," we talk about the significance of Christ in young adults. We usually focus for a moment on the younger people, young adults, older youth, and so on. We try to explore the distinctive places God has created for these younger Christians, and the effect Jesus Christ can have in a life, and the effect one of these lives can have on the Church. On a neighborhood. On a town or city. Or, on the world.

This month, however, I am looking beyond the focus for a time, and concentrating on the significance portion.

“What are young people today coming to?”

Well, it depends on what young people are in question, and I believe it depends, too, on how they are received. Here is an example.