Why Christian Kids Rebel Quotes

“Until kids find something worth dying for, they don't have anything worth living for.”
― Tim Kimmel, Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hope

“Bottom line, the mainline church movement was blindsided by that era and didn’t offer thoughtful responses to all that was going on around it. To many young kids in the midst of that tumultuous decade, the church came across as irrelevant and out-of-step with where the world was heading.”
― Tim Kimmel, Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hope

“Some of your children's rebellion against your spiritual lifestyle might be a necessary step in their finding an authentic relationship with God. But beware: If they find it, it might look quite different from what you've always thought it should be.”
― Tim Kimmel, Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hope

“Our children's rebellion is not the problem. It is the symptom. Why they are rebelling is the problem. And unless we address the "why," the external things we do in reaction to their rebellion will not make much of a difference.”
― Tim Kimmel, Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hope

“I know that a lot of Christian kids rebel. But as I said earlier, I'm convinced that most of them don't really want to. They just haven't been given a better alternative. The only true antidote for a life of rebellion is a life worth living.”
― Tim Kimmel, Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hope

“The issue isn't--nor should it ever be--how weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.”
― Tim Kimmel, Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hope