Is purity back in fashion?

John-Edward Funnell  |  Comment
Date posted:  16 Sep 2024
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Is purity back in fashion?

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Each summer, I have the opportunity to serve the next generation of leaders, missionaries and committed church members at youth camps in Wales and Romania. What I have observed recently is a growth in an almost puritanical movement within our youth.

As I teach the Bible and engage with Gen Z and Gen Alpha*, I am encouraged by their deep commitment to Jesus and their desire to live authentic holy lives. They have all grown up in a post-Christian secular society, saturated with sexual ideology and they are seeking refuge. I see a counter-culture that is being refined by secularism, calling a new generation back to holy living.

Gen Z and Gen Alpha appear to be serious about the Bible’s teaching: they are determined to stand for traditional values, they are applauded for embracing their biologically given gender, and they are saving themselves for marriage. Celibacy is being celebrated.

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