But don't believe everything you hear. At least three myths are alive and well in our conferences and popular books.
Young people are a generation.
Those babies arrived at a uniquely cohesive moment, when there were just three major television networks, magazines with names like Time and Life , and a series of culture-wide defining historical events, culminating in the Vietnam War. But there's no similar spike on the charts after 1960, just the normal ebb and flow of fertility that one sees throughout history. But they are fighting an uphill battle. Don't bet your youth ministry on it. In the Old Testament, the word generation usually refers to the continuity between parents and children, along with the joy of passing on faith from one generation to the next.