{
  "title": "Youth Are Favoured and Spoilt Members of Our Churches",
  "slug": "youth-are-favoured-and-spoilt-members-of-our-churches",
  "url": "/modern-traditions-of-men/youth-are-favoured-and-spoilt-members-of-our-churches/",
  "category": "Family and Discipleship",
  "severity": 2,
  "severity_label": "Level 2 - Dangerous distortion",
  "summary": "The church should love and disciple youth, but youth preference must not become the governing authority of worship, doctrine, standards, or church identity.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "1 Tim 4:12",
    "Titus 2:1-8",
    "Ps 78:1-8",
    "Prov 1:8",
    "Eccl 12:1"
  ],
  "key_terms": "paideia [formation, training]; presbyteros [older person, elder]; neotes [youth]; discipleship [formation under Christ]",
  "related_topics": [
    "youth-groups",
    "intergenerational-church-life-replaced-by-demographic-silos",
    "children-discipled-by-screens-more-than-scripture",
    "old-saints-ignored-because-they-are-not-culturally-useful"
  ],
  "tier": "Modern Traditions of Men",
  "translation_links": "NET Bible local reader links are embedded in the HTML page."
}