Why is the new generation this way? Can I afford not to connect with them?

But your point raises good questions: why is the new generation this way? The 'Its all about ME generation'.

Are they also victims of the current Internet and portable media age?

And the question: can I afford not to connect with them? 

Your views Bro.

Why? because the internet is instant gratification - you name it, musically, visually, every perversion or fetish you want, you can have, it encourages the fleshly pursuit of pleasure, pleasure pleasure and now more instantly than every before.

very rarely will anyone dig to find gold yet alone take a long journey to find it.

the bible holds true to find value and truth and something worth while you must dig and search to find it but very very few ever do... my feeling is less so now than ever before.

How do you want to connect with them? to gratify them and tickle their ears and eyes and worsen their condition keep on playing with them so that they will never ever grow up spiritually?

for what purpose do you want to connect with them?

Is it to deliver them from the present evil age? I trust that this is so.

Can you deliver a sharp rebuke? Are they used to receiving sharp rebukes? Proverbs says rebukes are the way of life if you don’t rebuke them, they shall be on the road to death in the future in many forms. Foolish spending = financial ruin. Foolish pleasures = wasted life, foolish sins = death in all its forms to relationships, to Spirituality, to work ethic, poverty etc. etc.

Preach strong about the utter meaninglessness, vanity and worthlessness of the material age, the deceitfulness and emptiness of fleshly gratification of eyes, tastes, emotions, mental images, physical stimulations.

Most importantly they must taste the bitterness of death there is in Sin and that only the Holy Spirit can inculcate. Because we are insensible to that bitter taste, having grown up drinking it as water and because we are dead. But life comes when we are born again if we are born again there is hope - there is a desire to be pure and separated.

But the preacher must preach ‘the soul that sins must die, the wages of sin is death’ - this is God’s word. Spurgeon said: ‘let loose the lion of Gods word’ - preach the word as it is, let the Holy Spirit go forth to convict your charges that sin is bitter and awful death to their hearts. you want this because you want their tastes to change, you want them to be in the world, but not of the world. Christians must be distinct in purity and love, distinct in every way from worldlings. But yet this is entirely a work of grace.

Pray for the conviction to come. the convicting power of the Holy Spirit is God's grace to begin to save them from indwelling sin. Deliver sharp rebukes because you love them. God will lead you to speak it right if your heart is set on their salvation and separation on the world. They will want to be pure and seperated, the Holy Spirit will create and strengthen that deposit of desire for purity in them.

There must come a fear of sin and spiritual and natural death that sin causes, and a tangible experience of the Holy Spirit's conviction to reveal to a person the wickedness and death there is in Sin will cause it. they must see and geel the utter dreadfulness of it, this is the awakening that is required. The preacher assists to preach ‘that the soul that sins must die, the wages of sin is death' but the good news through Christ is life. They will flock themselves to Christ and He will separate them if you will but rebuke them.

Spiritual fulfillment and fleshly fulfillment are mutually exclusive to each other, mix them together and the spiritual always loses out because of the allure of the present. The immediacy of the physical realm and the distance we feel as physical beings to the spiritual world make the spiritual - joys and realities seem afar off. the fleshly always obscures the spiritual.

Sin and the flesh is an empty experience compared to the weight and glory of eternal and spiritual joys and fulfillment  However, spiritual joys are not gained in a day or two days but after years and years of warfare, faith, passionate pursuit joy is developed and strong joy results.

Purity has to be a priority – the pure in heart will see God, and its progressive, the more we let grace purify our hearts the more of Christ we see and the more we are transformed, the more of grace we can receive, the more purity we have, the more that revelations of Christ flow and the more we enjoy Him and we are changed… it’s a cycle of holiness of which the first step is to turn from the flesh.

They must 'taste and see that the Lord is good' and that He does not condone fleshly fulfillment. Fleshly fulfillment will hinder your enjoyment of spiritual things. Hinder the growth of the spirit within. ‘touch not the unclean thing’, ‘be holy for I am holy’, ‘perfecting holiness in the fear of God’ are new testament commands unto the Christian.