Sep 8, 2026 · 12 min · 7 segments
In this episode of Teenager Tuesday, Will Perry is joined by Elijah Keck to wrap up their three-week series with a focus on helping teenagers stay rooted in their faith after they leave home. They…
Elijah KeckGuestWhat are things that we can do now as parents to help with that? There's this sociology study, landmark research from the Fuller Youth Institute.
And it showed a significant percentage of young adults experience a drop in their religious engagement in the first year post high school.
He's talked about how without hyper individual grounded moral anchor in them, then their Basically, their faith in whatever religion stunts because it's not grounded for them.
It is solely based off the parents' presence, the household rules, the youth group environment that they're grown up in.
But if you remove them from that environment and place them in a new place without the parent, without the rules, without the youth group...
So what can you do? Parents or seniors, especially we would encourage you with these things, but obviously this is good for any of
We got almost 400 surveys back spanning teenagers or former students who had graduated from a seven-year span.
The number one indicator on if they still loved Jesus, if they were still involved in a church, in a different city or this city, wherever, and if they rated themselves as loving God the same as they did in high school or better, the number one indicator was, did they serve somewhere in high school? That is the number one thing.
I love talking to parents who have middle schoolers who are like, my middle schooler, they just won't sit still and serve.
But then watching your middle schoolers serve in kids ministry, you're going to go, okay, who is that person? And the reason is this.
What are things that we can do now as parents to help with that? There's this sociology study, landmark research from the Fuller Youth Institute.
And it showed a significant percentage of young adults experience a drop in their religious engagement in the first year post high school.
He's talked about how without hyper individual grounded moral anchor in them, then their Basically, their faith in whatever religion stunts because it's not grounded for them.
It is solely based off the parents' presence, the household rules, the youth group environment that they're grown up in.
But if you remove them from that environment and place them in a new place without the parent, without the rules, without the youth group...
So what can you do? Parents or seniors, especially we would encourage you with these things, but obviously this is good for any of
We got almost 400 surveys back spanning teenagers or former students who had graduated from a seven-year span.
The number one indicator on if they still loved Jesus, if they were still involved in a church, in a different city or this city, wherever, and if they rated themselves as loving God the same as they did in high school or better, the number one indicator was, did they serve somewhere in high school? That is the number one thing.
I love talking to parents who have middle schoolers who are like, my middle schooler, they just won't sit still and serve.
But then watching your middle schoolers serve in kids ministry, you're going to go, okay, who is that person? And the reason is this.
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