A Gen Z Christian advocate says young Americans are ‘tired of falsehoods,’ and are turning to Jesus
The 22-year-old Christian activist says many young Americans are rediscovering their faith as they become frustrated with “fake things” and social media culture is driving a search for deeper meaning.
“We’re tired of the fake stuff. We’re tired of the fluff,” Bryce Crawford said Monday on “Fox & Friends.”
“We’re easily fed by our phone, by our desires, by whatever we think will satisfy us. Everyone is looking for love, and we try to fill that void with different things, and I think people naturally understand, ‘Wait, this thing isn’t working anymore. This isn’t going the way I thought it was going to go,’ so in the end, people don’t want the truth, they just don’t want the truth. i the truth and that would be Jesus.”
Crawford is helping to start a revival of faith in young adults by spreading the gospel on the streets and with millions of followers on his social media accounts.
After growing up in a Christian family, she gave herself fully to Christ and found peace in the word of Jesus after struggling with anxiety and depression as a teenager.
“When I was 17, I planned to make an irreversible decision about my life because I thought it was the only way to end the pain,” he said.
“And the night I was about to make an irreversible decision, Jesus met me supernaturally, and I prayed, and I said, ‘Jesus, if you’re real, take away my anxiety and depression,’ and I haven’t had it since that day.”
That was more than five years ago, he shared, and that’s when he put his “foot in the door” to give his life to Christ.
Crawford also leads the way with his “I Love Jesus” tour – traveling from county to county, town to town, to help spread the gospel and give people a place to rally behind the Christian message.
He said to help others accept the gospel as he did first by being “intentional” by asking questions.
“[People are] not math. I don’t go out there and treat them like a figure to go home and brag about. They are human beings made in the image of God,” he said.
“So we want to be intentional and ask questions, but we also ask hard questions: Do you have faith, what do you think happens when we die? Do you believe in Jesus? [What are] your thoughts on him? Everyone has an idea of Jesus. That is, do we believe that he is God? And if he is God, then he deserves our life and worship.”
Crawford said the revival of Christianity among Gen Zers comes from people who have “awakened to the truth” and realized that Christ is “the only thing that satisfies”.
“We have lived many different things, different people, relationships, things, bad habits, and it doesn’t fulfill us,” she said.
“So people understand that we need something eternal and perfect that can support that, and Jesus is alive and active, and he does that in the hearts of people who are hungry and ready to receive him.”
