Wild Oats? Nah!

Adults wave around this slogan, to feel better about their failures: "Teens NEED to sow their wild oats. It's normal." Wrong. That's only true in the System, the "way to have church" based on attendance at a place, on a schedule, with an automatic clergy-boss to run things. This disaster is predictable in the Organization but isn't normal in the Organism of HeavenLife Jesus brought us. The System, for those who really know what is going on in the youth groups and such, is, according to Barna Research, a pig stye mess. Jesus meant it to be the warmup Dance for His Wedding Feast. But it doesn't turn out that way when young and old don't get a chance to meet Jesus—because we are not embodying Him in what we mistakenly call "church." The Answer has always been in the Bible.