{"id":8977,"date":"2020-10-21T12:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2020-10-19T08:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:49:17","slug":"fr-peter-on-modern-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8977","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Peter on Modern Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Generation Z is the new horizon of young adults today. The term was first coined in a 1994 book about Clinton\u2019s presidency, predicting: \u201cthey will be like steerage passengers on the Titanic, trapped in the watery bowels of a sinking \u2018unsinkable ship\u2019\u201d (H. S. Thompson). Born after 1996, the iGeneration, Gen. Z, is reported to spend 9 hours a day online. 52% believe gender is based on a person\u2019s preference. 78% believe in God, but only 41% attend regular church services. The religious landscape that once emphasized sacrifice and suffering now emphasizes therapy and entitlement. We blinked and we found ourselves in a world of mud-flinging, radical ideologies, and technologies advancing faster than anyone can keep up.<\/p>\n

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To be Christian is to be a missionary. The Church\u2019s vocation in the first century is no different than its vocation in the 21st. Every spirit of Christianity that is not mission-minded, is not Christian. St. John Chrysostom put it bluntly, \u201cI don\u2019t believe in the salvation of anyone who is not concerned with the salvation of others.\u201d A contemporary priest in our Archdiocese put it in sharper words:<\/p>\n

Whatever terms we give people, Generation Z, millennials, baby boomers, or the like, everyone is a person desperately in need of God. The people around us are starved for truth and sanity, and we owe it to them.<\/p>\n

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**We are pleased to include writings from modern American Monasteries from time to time as well as our traditional Elders**<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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