Our generation is sick of repeating the history of drugs, alcohol, partying, immorality, stupidity etc. So it wasn't enough and we know that, but that won't keep them content. They will keep searching  and working to find something different until they run out. 

We have to show them life is more than a game. We're not battling the force and hoping that the dark side doesn't win. We are a generation with more influence than any other. A teen doing drugs and partying had to find encouragement for that somewhere. Most teens begin these horrible habits wanting to be "different." And now everyone is "different." So I guess it's time for us to be freaks. Seems we have to be a "different" that no one has heard of. 

Everyone has influence over someone and you don't have to be Justin Bieber to tell the world about your convictions. We have to live out loud. If you just quietly believe inside your head that abortion is wrong. You're not doing anything to save the millions of babies killed every year. If you think slavery is wrong, who are you saving by just thinking about it? We cannot afford to have silent convictions. God died to save people from their sins. Who else knows if we keep it locked inside our heads. If we truly know it in our hearts we cannot live quietly.

Slavery, abortion, orphans and homeless these are a few areas we need to raise our voices on. We do not need to be like the "Occupy Wall Streeters" that have a loud voice but don't have a clue. 

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy." -Proverbs 31:8-9

"Trust only the one who empowers you to think and speak and breathe differently than the headlines. He who created the foundations of the world is still creating. His eyes are on the oppressed and broken" - Jon Foreman

"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are younger, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." 1 Timothy 4:12

"If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes." - George Muller

- Madison