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The Juvenilization of American Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Pop worship music. Falling in love with Jesus. Mission trips. Wearing jeans and t-shirts to church. Spiritual searching and church hopping. Faith-based political activism. Seeker-sensitive outreach. These now-commonplace elements of American church life all began as innovative ways to reach young people, yet they have gradually become accepted as important parts of a spiritual ideal for all ages....

and stress.” Conflict with parents does often increase, and emotional swings or even depression can occur, but most adolescents’ lives are not characterized by dramatic external rebellion or damaging internal turmoil. Most develop in a relatively peaceful manner. Adolescent Christians see the faith as incomplete unless it is affecting them emotionally. They are less likely than adults to settle for a faith that offers only a dutiful adherence to particular doctrines, rules, or institutions. On the
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