Modern Day Expectations of Christians, Part 1

Parenting Pathway Stonebriar Community Church Frisco, TexasParenting Pathway Podcast with Pastor Dave Carl invites regular guest Student Ministry Pastor, Nathan Kocurek to a conversation with two friends Julie MacManus and Sarah McFarland. We will dig into a discussion that examines what young adults believe about Christianity and following Christ. Sarah, a millennial, helps us understand that this generation looks at God and Church with distrust because this generation came of age in a time when institutions and leaders are perceived to have failed them. She also explains how millennials are fearful of offending people and not being accepted.

So, how do you show Christ’s love, opening the Church’s doors to a generation who does not value or understand serving and being loved by Christ?

If you have young adult family members who appear to have turned away from what you thought you taught them, this conversation is for you.

Parenting Pathway Podcast looks at the strained relationship between the church and the millennial generation. This generation came of age in a period of time when institutions and leaders are perceived to have failed them. This generation is fearful of offending people and not being accepted The question is how do you show Christ’s love, open the doors of the Church to a generation who does not understand or see the value of being loved by and serving Christ.

Authors

  • Dave Carl

    Dave Carl is the Family Ministries Pastor at Stonebriar Community Church and is responsible for the ministry focusing on children birth through high school graduation and the parents who love them. With a ministry philosophy based on Luke 10:27, his primary focus is to give parents the skills to raise kids who truly love Jesus and want to serve others. Dave has a passion for ministering to families in crisis in our community. He has spent several years pouring into fathers and husbands and helping them learn that they need community, were designed to guard and protect, and that they really can be the spiritual leaders of their family.

    Dave and his wife of 30 plus years, Cathy, have two adult children and one in college and grandparents to three amazing children. They are completely in love with these new member of their family. Dave is an avid woodworker and loves to write. He sees all stories in the form of pictures, and he would love to connect with you!

  • Nathan Kocurek

    Emerging from the depths of the late 1970s, Nathan Kocurek spent his formative years under the influence of Hall & Oates, Duran Duran, and other notables while listening to KRBE in Houston on the clock radio beside his bed. Nathan was influenced to love Jesus by the example of his young single mom, and he grew up with a love for God but an incomplete understanding of discipleship. As a result, as a teenager, he indulged in a relentless and, at times, reckless pursuit of social and athletic achievements, seeking to assuage an innermost feeling of emptiness that he could not escape. Finally, by God’s grace, the Spirit of the Lord made it clear to him that none but Jesus could satisfy what he was lacking. The answer had been there all along. Later, Nathan married the girl of his dreams and they ran off to California, had two sons, and returned to Texas where they adopted their sweet daughter. Having served as a Student Minister at two previous churches over the past 18 years, Nathan and his wife, Marie, are now thrilled to follow the calling of Christ at Stonebriar Community Church.

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