Jesus Youth Monthly Reflection: September 2021 | English
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For the newly baptized believers of Thessalonica who had converted from paganism
and a culture with loose ethics, the warning of St. Paul would have been hard to
comprehend. “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid
sexual immorality…For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life” (1 Thes
4:3-7). Slowly but steadily, the Gospel of Christ expelled the lax moral standards
prevalent at that time and heralded a new era. Sadly, the decline of Christian influence
is progressively manifested in declining moral standards worldwide. It is no wonder
that there is a growing indifference to the demands of the Gospel among the youth,
who mostly have been brought up in a culture of hedonism and self-centeredness. Yet
it is in this very culture that we, as Jesus Youth, are called to hold aloft the banner of
truth that sets people free.
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