In an honest moment most Christians will admit that our American foundations are being uprooted, and that the Church’s effort to bring back our Christian heritage is waxing more and more futile. The most destructive force at work against us is clearly the public education system. Many battles have been fought at the school board, state, and Supreme Court levels, with the desire to bring truth to a lost generation of young people. We are losing more and more skirmishes each year. And the reason that we are losing has nothing to do with being outnumbered. I believe we are losing because we have not been strategic or willing to use some of our most valuable players. I want to offer a solution that will undermine the current propaganda machine.

Humanist forces in our society have, over the last 100 years, built an invisible wall around every public school. This wall is designed to keep Christianity and its values out. For years the Church has engaged in a half-hearted effort to lay siege from the outside of the walled perimeter by using the court system. Heaving rocks at the wall for years has hardly made a reasonable impact. I think it’s time for a new plan, and that plan is to send in what I have been calling the Trojan Horse.

What if we could send our troops in under the wall? What if we could motivate and train our Christian public school students to be world-changers? What if they were the ones to subvert the dominant paradigm? Who would stop them? After taking part in this war for some time now I believe that “the system” intended to keep truth out is ironically most vulnerable within. Millions of Christian students enter public high school every day. What if we were to offer them the responsibility of leading this revolution? This is not just a new idea of how to bring about change in our country, this is the last card in our hand, and soon it too will be taken from us. And then we won’t have a prayer of getting our nation back to its old paths.

What has the Church offered students so far? The average church has done a fairly good job of training students to save sex for marriage, steer clear of drugs, and bring more friends to church. But churches, for the most part, have not risen a generation of kids that are willing and ready to engage the culture and make disciples of Jesus Christ. This is my vision. I want to give them an invitation into something far more dangerous and far more wonderful than they have ever imagined. I want to invite them on a journey where they are forced to fully trust in the Lord to make their path straight. This journey begins when we become completely available to our Creator. This means that we too must be available servants ready for orders, or we will have nothing to give them.

Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Until you read the Scriptures and see the heroic adventures that God invites men on when they simply become available for his service. There isn’t a story in the Bible where God takes men and offers them financial and physical security at the beginning of their journey. He is not concerned about our personal reputations. God wants us to need him, to talk with him, and to trust him no matter what, so what does he do? He chocks our life full of mystery, danger, and adventure. And that, right there, is the key. The destiny that we have shown them is no more than just a Christian version of the world’s pitiful zip-locked Wal-Mart college life. When they see the real thing in action they too will want to really come alive and live out the radical life as an Ambassador of Jesus Christ.

I know, I know, at this point you’re saying, “Yes… but how do we motivate these kids to be world-changers?” Well, we offer them a more dangerous role in the story, of course. We reveal to them individually that according to the Word they were intimately created for a specific, strategic, cosmic purpose. We tell them that they are needed, simply BECAUSE THEY ARE! And then we walk with them as they listen to God and develop a strategic vision for their high school. We teach them truth, we train them, and then we set them free. God will be the one ultimately in charge if we do it this way.

The reason why the movie The Lord Of The Rings made such profits among teens is because it is a parable of the lives that we are supposed to be living. The trailer of the film runs these three statements across the screen:


And this is precisely what they will be invited into; the only difference is that fate has nothing to do with their great and noble undertaking. We are not called to be living a re-run from Home Improvement. You and I were born into a world at war, and we are going to need every bit of strength that we can muster. I believe in today’s young people; I believe that we have what it takes to bring down the forces of evil. The God of the Armies of Israel is our counselor: may He use this generation to violently bring forth His Kingdom.