1. A Daniel Generation Dr. Jolene Erlacher www.leadingtomorrow.org

2. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god. Daniel 1:1-2 (NIV)

3. Overview of the History of Western Civilization
European Renaissance (1300s-1500s)
Protestant Reformation
(1500s)
Age of Enlightenment or Reason (1700s)
Industrial Revolution (1750-early 1800s)
Post-Modernism (1900s)
*Deconstruction, relativism, post-structuralism
Overview of the History of Western Civilization

4. Traits of Modernism and Postmodernism Affecting American Culture
Objectivity/Facts
Subjectivity/Story
Distance/Hierarchy
Participation/Engagement
Mechanical/Structured
Organic/Open
Efficiency
Adaptability
Determinacy
Indeterminacy
Creation
Deconstruction
Individualism (Local)
Community (Global)
Power and faith in human reasoning
Power and faith are in personal experience
Confidence in reason to discover truth
Acceptance of self-determined pluralistic views
Note: Adapted from Grenz, 1996; Harvey, 1990; Kimball, 2003; & McLaren, 2001

5. Less than one-half of one percent (0
Less than one-half of one percent (0.05%) of adults aged 18 to 23 have a biblical worldview, compared to about one out of every nine older adults (11%).”
--Barna Group (2009 survey)

6. --Pew Research Center, 2014 Religious Landscape Study

7. Season of a Remnant
Who is around you that you can reach out to encourage and affirm? Who can walk with you in your journey of faith?

8. “He is making all things new!”
“…He has promised, ‘Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.’ This phrase, ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken.”
--Hebrews 12:26-28
“He is making all things new!”