Okay, I know what you're thinking from that title.
"Are you actually serious?"
Let me explain myself first.
Being a millennial, I agree completely that we have some pretty lazy kids in our generation. It seems that we are a generation that doesn't want to do anything but have everything given to us regardless. Which is pretty darn irritating if you ask me.
It seems that the number of those who just want the world to be handed to them out-number those indefinitely who want to make a difference and actually work hard for what they earn. Therefore, the ones who actually work hard for what they are given, are being looked over.
But that's not exactly what I mean when I say that we are doing more than you think we are.
This weekend, I attended Passion Conference 2017; it being my second year in a row going. The first year, my mind was blown. It was incredible to look around and see 40,000 people in awe of our Savior and taking money out of their own pockets to help those who need it more than we do. Let me clarify that this was 40,000+ college students. College students.
Those who are already on a tight budget- most who probably are living paycheck to paycheck. Last year, we raised over $811,000 to start a project of a hospital being built in Syria because there was currently not one there. And there really, really needed to be.
Seeing so many of these students overlook their own struggles and look to those who have it much harder than we do put me to actual tears.
This year, there was over 65,000 of us under one roof- which let me say was hands down the most overwhelmingly incredible thing I have ever experienced. And this year, we had the opportunity, as a body, to sponsor the children that remained sponsor-less in four different countries.
The incredible part is- we did it.
4 entire countries. Sponsored. And it wasn't free either; it was $38 a month, which for a college student, that is a chunk of change. Not to mention, that it's not just money that you have to give. But it also involves writing letters to the child and reaching out to them. Reminding them how much they are loved.
It's more than just the money, it's making a personal and genuine relationship with someone across the world.
So for a generation that seems to be all about ourselves, I have to disagree in this case.
To be honest, it seems that whenever there is a riot or protesting involving millennials, there is screen to screen coverage of it. But when something as incredible as gathering to do work for Jesus, it just goes under the rug. It's not that we need the credit for it, that's not why we do it. We do it because our hearts long for Jesus and getting to do his work is what we live to do. And what we want to do, without the recognition.
The 65,000 people that I got to look around me and encounter this weekend have shown me that our generation has some of the most generous and vulnerable hearts when it comes to doing the work for the advancement of the kingdom.
Our generation is being stirred in a different direction than its been going- God is doing something in the hearts of those who fall under the category of millennials.
So for that reason, I will be proud to say I am one any day.
