Why Catholics and Protestants are Losing the Next Generation

With the last generation, the Catholics lost a full 1/3 of their adherents, and the Protestants didn't do much better. That according to a major study conducted on religion in America just released.

Generational continuity of the faith is dissipating quickly in Europe and America. In this issue of the Generations broadcast, Kevin Swanson grapples with why the Deuteronomy 6:7 vision is abhorrent to Catholics and unpopular among Protestants.

Generational continuity does not happen much anymore. Presbyterians think they can throw a little water on the heads of their kids and toss them into public schools for a humanist indoctrination. Then you have Baptist parents who shoot for a one-time emotional conversion experience from their children, sans 30,000 hours of Deuteronomy 6:7 discipleship. How do children get saved? Suffice it to say, the superficial, just-add-water-and-microwave-it-for-30-minutes form of evangelism doesn't work. This program gets back to the biblical pattern for establishing generational continuity.