Generation X

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Generation X

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Generation X

born 1964-1984

The MeGeneration

Yuppies withouta conscience

The Lost Generation

Baby pictures

We were the first generation people took a pill not to have…

We are the children of divorce- 40% of us grew

up in broken homes, many without fathers…

We came home to an empty house after

school at triple the rate our parents did…

We were at daycare. 67% of us had mothers working outside the

home…

We watched 22,000 hours of TV by the time we were 18 (2.5 years

worth), twice the time we spent in school…

Our parents’ generation didn’t go to church.

Neither did we…

Birthday presents…

Our parents’ generation gave us free love, divorce, and AIDS…

Recreational drug use, cocaine and crack…

The biggest debt ever in human history (more than $15,000,000,000,000)…

And a label as selfish, lazy and careless…

Every day

13 of us will commit suicide…

16 of us will be murdered…

1,000 of us became unwed mothers…

100,000 of us brought

guns to school…

2,200 of us will drop out of school…

500 of us will start using drugs…

1,000 of us start drinking alcohol…

3,500 of us are assaulted…

630 of us are robbed…

80 of us are raped…

We are incarcerated and executed at a

higher rate than any previous generation…

Today

We care less about money and spend more

time with our families than our parents…

We get married later (usually at 26) than

our parents…

46% of us still have broken relationships with

parents (the people we most often say are our role models)…

We distrust authority figures(our role models failed or quit life)…

Kurt Cobaincommitted

suicide 1994

Jimmy SwaggartUsed a prostitute

1988

Only 26% of us 25 and younger attend weekly

religious services of ANY faith (lowest number of

any age group).

So…Now what?

89% of us still believe in God, and 75% of us believe there is life

after death…

We are leary of denominations and

institutions…

Our parents asked few questions. We ask really

big ones…

We are willing to challenge status quos- and we go where we have

to to find answersthat satisfy…

To us, religion has been exploitative, exclusive

and doctrinal…

We value experience over information…

We’d rather be honest than polite…

We’ve grown up in turmoil- we thrive in transition and change…

We’ve been hurt- we embrace brokenness and

compassion…

We’re tired of division- we are team players…

We love our youth-and we’re willing to spend it all on a worthy cause…

We’d rather solve problems than discuss

them…

More than other generations, we value

art, music and drama as expressions of worship…

We are slow to trust, but in a safe place where we fit in, our commitment is

unwavering…

We value and work towards diversity…

We are passionate about advance, rather than

maintenance…

To us, the journey is as important as the

destination…

We’re a generation of searchers… we’re still

looking…

“I looked for the one my heart loves- I looked but I couldn’t find him… I will search for the one my heart loves…when I

found him…I held him and would not let him go.Song of Solomon 3:1-8