That, coupled with the fact that this generation will be the first to grow up under the umbrella of postmodernism. They will believe that everybody's feeling is as valid and as authoritative as God's word, science or anything else. When we talk about where postmodernism is, the reality, as far as I can see, is that at the ground floor young people, and older people as well, live within smaller communities. It's those small communities where they become rooted to keep them alive. When we talk about the Internet, I suspect most people are not that stupid.
Most young people have friendship networks, groups and gangs.
What I see happening at present in the UK is that a new generation of urban youth workers are being called by God. They are coming from all sorts of different kinds of Churches, but what they have in common is a desire meet the need of these young people in their communities. One of the things that's got to happen is a massive investment in work outside the confines of the local church. It's great that churches have put an emphasis on youthwork but that emphasis is on young people in church. There are a huge number of young people out there waiting to be evangelised and somehow we've got to get the resources to them.