{"id":493,"date":"2007-09-05T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/?p=493"},"modified":"2026-02-13T03:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:54:23","slug":"berit-kjos-shaping-the-global-christian-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/berit-kjos-shaping-the-global-christian-youth.html","title":{"rendered":"Shaping the Global &#8216;Christian&#8217; Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Like  usual Berit Kjos gives too many good points in her well documented  articles to do justification in a clip or two. I hope you will read the  article. Berit has a very good handle on what is happening in the world  and the church of today. It is not a pretty picture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20251017045000\/https:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/BeritKjos\/kjos81.htm\">Berit Kjos &#8212; Shaping the Global &#8216;Christian&#8217; Youth<\/a>: &#8220;Like our secular guides, today&#8217;s postmodern, purpose-driven church guides keep sounding the call for continual change. And their restless audience &#8212; dulled by decades of &#8216;progressive education&#8217; and corrupt entertainment &#8212; are fast falling in line behind the most popular pied pipers. There&#8217;s little to hold them back from the tempting snares that tug at their hearts these days. The greatest obstacle to deception has always been God&#8217;s unchanging Word. But that wall of resistance is crumbling fast. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rick Warren assures his followers that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroad.to\/articles2\/006\/fundamentalism.htm\">fundamentalism<\/a>, of all varieties, will be &#8216;one of the big enemies of the 21st century.'&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20251017045000\/https:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/BeritKjos\/kjos81.htm\">12<\/a> He may be right! His worldwide influence will surely speed the rising hostility toward the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroad.to\/articles2\/006\/fundamentalism.htm\">fundamental Truths<\/a> of God &#8212; a major obstacle to global solidarity.<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20251017045000\/https:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/BeritKjos\/kjos81.htm\">13<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like usual Berit Kjos gives too many good points in her well documented articles to do justification in a clip or two. I hope you will read the article. Berit has a very good handle on what is happening in the world and the church of today. It is not a pretty picture. Berit Kjos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,45],"tags":[56,51,66],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergingemergent-church","category-the-church","tag-emergent","tag-postmodern","tag-purpose-driven"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-7X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6915,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}