{"id":7466,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/show-up-for-the-battle\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:53","slug":"show-up-for-the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/show-up-for-the-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Up For the Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Brantley, of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention Evangelism Department, said that a \u201ccode blue\u201d needs to be issued for reaching today\u2019s teenagers.  Pointing out that \u201ccode blue is the hospital term for a life-or-death emergency,\u201d Brantley notes: \u201cSuicide has increased 120 percent among kids ages 10 to 12 in the past 12 years.  One out of three have considered suicide.  One out of seven have attempted suicide.  The homicide rate among 14- to 17-year olds has increased 165 percent in the last 10 years.  Marijuana use has doubled in the last two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brantley concludes with a significant observation: \u201cIf this generation is lost, it is not because Satan is more powerful or has something better to offer.  It will be because the church didn\u2019t show up for the battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 4\/3\/97, p. 11; contributed by Sol Madlambayan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Brantley, of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention Evangelism Department, said that a \u201ccode blue\u201d needs to be issued for reaching today\u2019s teenagers. Pointing out that \u201ccode blue is the hospital term for a life-or-death emergency,\u201d Brantley notes: \u201cSuicide has increased 120 percent among kids ages 10 to 12 in the past 12 years. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[385,139,1015,675],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}