Sticky Faith is a book of hope and a book of practicality. It begins by bringing to the light the issue that Christian teens all face when they go off to college: will their faith stick or will they leave it in the past as simply a high school hobby.
The book begins with something they like to call, “the not-so-sticky-faith reality.” It lays the foundation for the rest of the book by presenting all of the facts and statistics about the faith in teens in high school verses once they get to and graduate from college. It states that, “40 to 50 percent of kids who graduate from a church or youth group will fail to stick with their faith in college.” (Powell and Clark 15) Not only that, but it also shares that, “only 20 percent of college students …show more content…
Something we focused on in class as well as in this book was the power of your witness. We watched an entire video on the importance of the spirituality of the leader, but I would say that the spirituality of the parents speaks even louder. For example, my family didn’t talk too much about faith in the home growing up. We all went to church, were all involved, my brother is a youth minister for crying out loud, and for some reason it was just awkward. However, every morning when I would wake up for school at 5:30 am, I would come downstairs to see my father in his chair, having been there for at least an hour, praying Morning Prayer and doing some spiritual reading before he left for work at the early hour of six o’clock. Even though he never said much to me, the witness of his interior spiritual life encouraged, inspired, and provoked me to foster my own prayer life. If all parents were encouraged by the youth minister to not be afraid to outwardly live the faith, and better yet, talk about it as it suggests in Sticky Faith, just imagine how much more teens would live out the Sunday-night-fifteen-minute
The book begins with something they like to call, “the not-so-sticky-faith reality.” It lays the foundation for the rest of the book by presenting all of the facts and statistics about the faith in teens in high school verses once they get to and graduate from college. It states that, “40 to 50 percent of kids who graduate from a church or youth group will fail to stick with their faith in college.” (Powell and Clark 15) Not only that, but it also shares that, “only 20 percent of college students …show more content…
Something we focused on in class as well as in this book was the power of your witness. We watched an entire video on the importance of the spirituality of the leader, but I would say that the spirituality of the parents speaks even louder. For example, my family didn’t talk too much about faith in the home growing up. We all went to church, were all involved, my brother is a youth minister for crying out loud, and for some reason it was just awkward. However, every morning when I would wake up for school at 5:30 am, I would come downstairs to see my father in his chair, having been there for at least an hour, praying Morning Prayer and doing some spiritual reading before he left for work at the early hour of six o’clock. Even though he never said much to me, the witness of his interior spiritual life encouraged, inspired, and provoked me to foster my own prayer life. If all parents were encouraged by the youth minister to not be afraid to outwardly live the faith, and better yet, talk about it as it suggests in Sticky Faith, just imagine how much more teens would live out the Sunday-night-fifteen-minute