This Generation

A week ago tonight my family went to a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society at Cheeseburger in Paradise ( umm....it's a restaurant). It was a project by my daughter Sara's group of honors students at KSU Stark Campus. They expected to raise a few hundred bucks but brought in over a thousand.

Yes, your money got you something that night. You were treated to an all-you-can eat buffet dinner. Yes, there was alcohol available for the over 21 crowd. Yes, watching karoke was a riot. But what I loved about this whole thing was the hearts of these college students. Many are yearning to engage in something bigger than themselves. Something God-sized. A couple of them are going to Peru over winter break to help build an orphanage. They are interested in social action and believe they can make a difference.

They can. They will. They already are.

At least two of them, even though full time college students and part time employed, sponsor children in Ecuador and Columbia through Compassion International.

They may not even verbalize it this way yet but I saw a generation ready to step outside themselves and live for something more than a life of consumption. A generation that is telling the church they are not interested in it if all that gets built is a bigger organization and a bigger building. But if the church wishes to be an organism then count them in.

Me too.

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"How do you want to spend your life? We all know you can ruin it. But what is more important to recognize is that you can sleep through it." - Dean Brackley

I see a mustard seed generation unwilling to sleep. They are sprouting and bringing the Kingdom of God to earth. Right here. Right now.

There is a shift in thought in folks my age in this country called "halftime". Some of us have found success in the first half of our lives and realize it has left us empty. We yearn to do something significant with the second half of our lives. Something that really matters.

Perhaps this generation of teenagers and twenty-something's will completely ditch the chase for success and follow Jesus with their whole lives.