than my gut feeling. She states that our teens practice Moral Therapeutic Deism “not because they have misunderstood what we have taught them in church. They practice it because this is what we have taught them in church.”3 Without realizing it, youth ministers—and churches and ministries alongside them—model Esau, asking the nearest available Jacob questions like “Is there a lesson I can prepare in thirty minutes or less?” “Is there some video clip I can show to make me look like I know what’s going