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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's hard for me to put my finger on what bothers me about YL as apposed to my own church's youth group. It seems like Young Life capitalizes on adolescent hormones to lure kids in to their events. They have late night parties and play stupid games that have nothing to do with God or Jesus. My DD went to one where teen girls were bouncing on balloons to pop them with all the boys on one side wide eyed at the scene. Some of the games are innocent of course, but the encouragement of flirt and flaunt is not what I'm looking for in a teen Christian education program.

While of course YL will not likely admit it-- they probably preach delaying sex until marriage, the activities (lock-ins, for example) put kids in an impossible position. Plus there's the whole, "hellfire and brimstone" teaching. We don't go for fear based evangelism either. [/quote]

Young life was a big thing when i was in high school and this was exactly what it was like. Seriously. I went one time. It was horrifying. They never once talked about religion. It was also weird games like the pp described.[/quote]

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