Freedom Is Not a Formula | Allen Parr

You know, that's a good follow-up question because, and you speak to young people a lot and you communicate.

You've been to our Worldview Conference here, which is a lot of students from Prestonwood Christian Academy and other schools and adults who come from everywhere.

Dr. Johnston leads that, and you're a regular part of that over the last several years.

But all the young people that are in the room, I've been doing some reading about why young people today are waiting so late to get married.

And I think it's exactly what you said.

I mean, my generation, Deb and I got married when we were in college.

And I just noted statistically most men in the 50s and 60s, we got married in 1970, but most men in that era, let's say baby boomers, Got married at average age 21, 22 and wives, women at 19.

And now it's advanced about 10 years.

Now men are getting married about the age of 30 typically and women, you know, late 20s.

So is your experience, you think that is that what young people are going through? Just so much brokenness in life and marriage and their families.

I mean, what's going on?

I would tend to believe that a lot of the younger, more serious, committed Christians probably still want to get married at a younger age.

From my experience, and I think it's kind of obvious, I mean, especially for men in their 20s, if you're seriously committed to the Lord, you understand that.

this is God's provision for you to have a family and to enjoy God's gift of intimacy with a woman.

And so I think that there's this disconnect.

For the younger Christian generation, they probably still want to close that loop in their life earlier.

But outside of that, yes, I do see that A lot of people now they're just they don't want to commit to one person.

They want to leave their options open.

And sex now has not become sacred in our society at all.

It's just promiscuity.

Yes.

And so they just want to enjoy, you know, their life.

And so they want to prolong that as long as possible.

And now some people don't even see the benefit or even the reason for it, which is really sad.

Yeah.