23 The Courage Generation
When Krishnamurthy, a Vice President of the World Bank, told me on a plane over Eastern Europe,
“We must wait for an entire generation to die before change can come…,” he didn’t say it with cruelty.
He said it with realism.
Older generations often carry:
- institutional loyalty
- biological loyalty
- inherited assumptions
- accumulated fears
- cultural baggage
- laziness
- worldliness: lack of true Faith and Conversion
- learned hopelessness
They subconsciously or even overtly and aggressively defend the System even when it fails.
But Gen Z?
They have no such loyalty.
They weren’t raised on:
- nostalgia
- cultural Christianity
- denominational pride
- social pressure to attend
- habit-based or guilt-based “church” life
They were raised in a world of:
- rapid change
- broken institutions
- global complexity
- digital connection
- news cycle and political dishonesty
- ideological fragmentation
- social transparency
Which means they carry:
- no sentimental attachment to the System
- no desire to preserve it
- no interest in playing church
- no hesitation to speak truth
- no fear of challenging authority
- no patience for hypocrisy
- no tolerance for fake religion
They are the first generation in centuries who might actually say:
“If it’s not Jesus, walk away.”
Or even better, “No matter what anyone else does, let’s do it the way Jesus did it, and the 3,000 and 20,000 lived. Walking in the Light and opening our lives, hurts, and fears to each other, priests all.”
They are the courage generation. It’s not about “starting something.” There will be no ribbon cutting ceremony or “first day” anniversary. Just live and love without pretense or expectation. Just lay down your life for Jesus, WHILE you’re doing your career and the rest of life.
“In the world, but not of the world.”
Nothing weird or activist or unloving to anyone else. Just “following the Lamb wherever He goes.”
Jesus loves courage. Abandonment, “the Faith of Abraham, to be sons of Abraham and Saved” is courageous. And that can be, must be, for ALL of us. But will you?