![]() Upon hearing you, the youth pastor of the church – the person heavily relied on to lead and shepherd their teens – is active on Snapchat they concede it’s probably okay.īut then there are us parents who read the word of God and cannot reconcile teenagers with Snapchat as healthy for their discipleship and faith. They look towards the church to see what standard they should follow. ![]() Often, these parents are already wrestling with whether to allow Snapchat because they, too, have been warned of its sexual immorality. In the same way, parents hear that you are on Snapchat from their children. Snapchat promotes gossip, slander, self-promotion, envy, greed, hatred, shaming, dishonesty, and on and on.Īnd while you, Youth Pastor, try to stay away from these unholy activities, the teenagers who are watching you don’t know this. It is exposing teenagers to pornography, both through creation of porn themselves and exposure to the porn created by others. The new bar in this social media town lowering the morality and purity of countless young teens is Snapchat. The Bible is wrong: sexual immorality isn’t wrong (and thus, everything else my parents taught me about the Bible and Jesus are probably wrong too.) You see, for teenagers finding their faith, only one truth can win in this reconciliation:Įither the Bible is right: sexual immorality is unholy (making hypocrites of all Christians who claim they follow the bible and love Jesus yet make no attempt remain sexually moral.) Just knowing you are there, they must reconcile your presence with the immoral things they know occur. They don’t see anyone leaving the bar or coming to Christ because of your presence. And not just any bar, but a provocative, scandalous bar that entices the appetites of addiction and overflows with sexual immorality. Our teenagers, however, only see that their youth pastor is in the bar. You believe you are evangelizing, reaching the lost, capturing their attention and building relationships. To draw them out and away from their sin. To explain this better, let’s take the cliché bar analogy.Īs a youth pastor, you go into a bar, not with the intention of getting drunk but to be where the lost and sinful gather. We understand all this, but our kids do not. We also recognize your need to connect with teens in order to get them in the door before you can share the Gospel with them. When we explain why they don’t need any social media, especially Snapchat, they explain this is the only way you communicate youth/student ministry activities during the week.Īs parents, we understand you are using this social media tool to reach a generation of teens in desperate need of Jesus. ![]() When we deny them access to Snapchat because of the sexual immorality known to occur there, they insist it must be okay because you are on it. Your social media use, specifically Snapchat, is a large stumbling block for my children’s understanding of how Christ followers distinguish themselves as such. The truth is, Youth Pastor, you are making it really hard to teach and authenticate the Gospel inside our homes. We wholeheartedly believe in this choice, and we are desperate for you to hear why. Have you met us? Did you know such parents existed? We are in your church and our teenagers attend your student ministry. We are the parents who do not allow our teenagers to use social media. ![]() ![]() There are still some of us brave and undaunted parents who are fighting, against all odds and societal norms, to keep our children from being polluted by the world. ![]()
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