Seth Barnes wrote about a great
opportunity to wake up a generation today. It’s inspiring; it gives me
tingles, and this is the kind of radical shift we should expect in
today’s youth. From Sethbarnes.com:
I’ve got this dream of a generation waking up and changing the world. Tomorrow, at The Call in Las Vegas, it may begin to become a reality that you can watch in real time at the GodTV link below.
Young
people know that they were made for something better than the safety
and comfort of Americana. They just need a little help and they will
leave their narcissism and comfort
behind, going boldly into dark
places to take on the problems of AIDS, hunger, and hopelessness.
Of
course, none of this is new – Jesus did it. He came to set captives
like our spoiled young people free to realize all the incredible
potential he’s deposited in them. He used initiation experiences like
the ones described in Luke 9 and 10 to start waking his disciples up
like this, and we need to do the same. It’s not rocket science.
For a couple of years, we’ve been doing this with something called The World Race
– a “Luke 10 experience” for our time. Young people leave family and
friends behind for a year, take nothing more than a backpack and
minister the power and love of God as they travel around the world.
This, in turn, is part of a three-year discipleship experience guided
by mature Jesus-followers whose own children have grown up and who want
to invest in the next generation.
We just took Jesus’ model of
discipleship and asked, “What if we were to replicate it, what would it
look like?” He invested intensively in a few young people for three
years, asking them to trust him completely. And they changed the world.
So,
why, if this has been going on for two years, is the dream suddenly
becoming a reality? Because one of our World Race leaders, Gary Black, just flew in from Africa and will be on stage at The Call sharing this dream and calling the tens of thousands of young people there to go and die in the nations.
He’ll
be challenging the 20-somethings to go on the World Race and trust
Jesus in radical ways. Who knows how they will respond, but the dream
is so compelling, I think that the response will be combustive. Over
100 Racers are currently in Cambodia, Thailand, and other Asian
countries. What would we do if 10,000 signed up to do this? How could
we possibly respond? What do you do when God answers your dream and it
overwhelms you?
Please be praying about this and tune in here at GodTV at 1 pm (e.s.t.) today (10/20/07) to watch it live.
