"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right . . . Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord" (Eph 6:1, 4).

I remember the days of Girls in Action and Royal Ambassadors. Those were the programs most Southern Baptist churches employed in the 1970s-80s to disciple teens. And every church I knew growing up had some kind of "youth program" that ceaselessly planned fun activities, cool outings, plenty of concerts and camps, and so on. But, if you were to ask me to assess the fruitfulness in terms of salvations that produced mature disciples of Jesus who hate sin and live on mission with God in this world, I would be hard-pressed to say anything positive.

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