There’s some interesting new data out on Gen Z that requires us to sit up and take notice. To remind you, Gen Z is that demographic group born between 1997 and 2012. According to the marketing research firm VML, members of Gen Z are choosing to live in the now as a result of facing uncertainty about their futures. VML reports that these older teens and young adults are embracing immediate and intense pleasures, including drinking more, using drugs, tanning without concern for skin damage, and smoking real cigarettes. We need to teach our kids that while God does call us to live our lives to His glory in the now, we are also to live for eternity. In Titus 2:11-13 we read, For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.”