As I am sure most of you are aware by observing your own families or looking around church, America is undergoing a generational crisis of faith.  Where only 10% of those people born in the 1930s & 1940s called themselves religiously unaffiliated, a whopping 40% of millennials said that they had no religion.  Ironically the pious cliche ‘God has no grandchildren’ is manifesting itself in our churches.  Somehow the American cultural tradition of believing in God, attending church and leading life with Christian ethics has exhausted itself.  On top of that, in our ethnic Church, the tie to our ethnic tradition dissolves rapidly over time, so that each generation born in DIaspora has less affinity to the church.  Jesus warned us about this often in scripture. Pious Jews thought that their ethno-religious ancestry would save them, Jesus says he could raise up ancestors of Abraham from stones. The disciples thought that their kin relationships could save them, Jesus says ‘If you come to me but will not leave your family, you cannot be my follower. You must love me more than your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—even more than your own life!  God has no grandchildren because each of our highest callings is to a personal and direct relationship with our heavenly father.  Each new generation must make their own discoveries of who God is to them, otherwise we worship the ashes of ancestral fires rather than God’s living fire, here and now.