CURBING EXODUS OF YOUTHS FROM THE NIGERIAN BAPTIST CHURCHES
CURBING EXODUS OF YOUTHS FROM THE NIGERIAN BAPTIST CHURCHES . It is no longer news that the rate at which our youths exit the Baptist churches to Pentecostal churches is alarming. It saddens one's heart to see many youths that the denomination have laboured on from the cradle to youth deserting the church when we need them most. Youths that we have invested our time on right from sunbeam to girls auxiliary / royal ambassadors to Lydia and at the time when they need to serve the church with their strength which is the glory of the youth they leave the church. This have become a trend in churches predominantly in the city and if nothing is done about it to arrest the situation urgently some of our churches will become dead. The youths are the life of the church, they are the hope of the church, a church without youths is simply a dead church. It becomes apparent for the pastoral leadership of the Nigerian Baptist convention to declare the matters of youth as a state of emergency and