The challenges that our children do face and will continue to face in the 21st century are enormous. The explosion of all manner of information on all platforms without discretion demands an urgent intervention on our parts as parents and ministers. Our Children have not only been entangled in the "World Wide Web/Internet" but have been thoroughly "raped". R A P E D! YES! R A P E D! R: RISKED: exposed to dangers of different magnitudes in the physical world and social media. Above all, to ideologies that are contrary to the Truth. Col
2:8 A: ABANDONED: left to themselves because parents are too busy. Their questions are not answered as and when due. P: PRESSURIZED: the children are under intense pressure from peers, from seducing spirits of the age and in the jungle of confusion in terms of choices to make. Many of them are simply unable to handle the pressures of life, so they become victims of pressure. They are doing many things in order to survive using the easy way out like drugs, sex, etc. E: ESTRANGED: alienated and isolated from the family, they are in the world of their own. They don't have affection for or attachment to family. They are withdrawn and are easily bored. D: DECEIVED: they are following another Jesus, another gospel and another spirit. 2 Cor. 11:3-4 They have become strange children with strange identities. Psalm 144:11. They remain immature and are not able to handle responsibilities commensurate with their ages.
Just picture in your mind being given a raped child to nurse back to life and health with the instruction, 'nurse this child for me, I will pay you'. Exo 2:9. What will you do? Will you run away telling yourself, 'This is too much responsibility or too bad, there is nothing I can do'. Or will you choose to submit your fears and anxieties to God, join the rescue mission and trust Him to lend you His wisdom on the matter?
This is the reason for this training manual on identity