The Next Generation of Leaders

Posted by: Kaylan Christopher on May 27, 2008 Hot Issues •

This month, the Associated Press published a story about a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma who was elected mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma—a city of 38,000.

John Tyler Hammons said, “The public placing their trust in me is the greatest, humbling and most awesome experience I’ve ever had in my life.”

Hammons plans to continue his college education and will transfer to a school closer to Muskogee. He said, “Being elected does not change my desire to continue my education. We will schedule our time in an appropriate fashion so that I can be mayor and stay in school.”

When I first read this story, I began to think of all the other young people around this age who are doing something, like John Tyler Hammons, to impact and change our country and world.

It seems to be a growing phenomenon among young people today to do great things. What is it about this generation that wants to step into leadership positions and change the world at such a young age?

Today, more young people are being encouraged from elementary school to high school to get involved in what is going on in our communities, country, and world. I’m encouraged to see this generation of young people stepping up to the plate and doing something about their culture.

Proverbs 20:11 says, “Even a young man is known by his actions—by whether his behavior is pure and upright.”

I think this—being just one of many passages on this topic—should be an encouragement to the youth of our culture. Their votes count. Their opinions matter. Their godly leadership is needed. It’s true—they’re going to be the ones leading our country in the years to come. Now is the time to start investing in them and moving them to making a change in our society.

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Comments

The last sentance in this article is…
Now is the time to start investing in them & moving them to make change in society.

This statment would be true if it wern’t for the fact that someone has beat us to it...For
generations our public schools and colleges have been doing that. Teaching Socialist, Marcest theolgy and anti-god philosophys to our
children. Our Churches have been generaly silent about this.

Now is the time to take back the education of
our children with a Cristian World view. Now is the time for Christian teachers to come forward and share the stories of what they are
forced to teach. Now is the time for Christian
parents to go through there childrens text books to see what philosophys are being promoted. Now is the time for pastors to find
out what is going on in todays schools and share it with there congergations.
50 years ago is gone....NOW IS THE ONLY THING LEFT.

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