Adults Quote by Nancy Pearcey

“Mark DeVries observed that the church had become the place where teenagers “are most segregated from the world of adults.”2 Churches had unwittingly cultivated…

— Duffy Robbins

“Youth groups can be vehicles for Christian fellowship, but unless teenagers learn to share one another’s suffering (not to mention the suffering of people…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“Legitimate peripheral participation means that adolescents make real contributions to our shared life in God, even while they are still figuring out how to…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“the blasé religiosity of most…teenagers is not the result of poor communication but the result of excellent communication of a watered-down gospel so devoid…

— Duffy Robins

“Adults identify as Christians typically because they had formative experiences as a child or as a teenager that connected them to Christianity. But that…

— David Kinnaman

In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism.…

— Vincent Nichols

I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.

— Willie Aames

“If teenagers lack an articulate faith, maybe it is because the faith we show them is too spineless to merit much in the way…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“Adolescents are looking for a soul-shaking, heart-waking, world-changing God to fall in love with; and if they do not find that God in the…

— Sarah Arthur

“My work with teenagers has convinced me that one of the main reasons teenagers are not excited by the gospel is that they do…

— Timothy Lane

When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt,…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into…

— Donald Miller