1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Picking up from last week's stats on the UK's youth revival, Lynn Green looks at the ~50-year gap between spiritual &quot;waves&quot; (the 1970s Jesus Movement and now), and argues hopelessness is the common thread driving both. He unpacks Jesus's parables of the growing seed and the sower (Mark 4 and Luke 8) using stories from decades of street evangelism — including a dramatic account of a discipleship house gone wrong — to explain why most seed doesn't bear fruit, but the harvest that does multiplies exponentially. Chapters: 00:00 – Intro: upcoming surgery &amp;amp; recap of last week's stats 02:12 – Comparing today to the wave of the early 1970s 03:41 – Hopelessness as the common thread across generations 04:36 – Learning from the Oxford Street coffee bar outreach 06:53 – The &quot;harvest&quot; and why students are more open now 07:48 – Mark 4:26 — the parable of the growing seed 08:49 – What the parable actually means: seed vs. soil 09:14 – The Reconciliation Walk and finding God already at work 11:14 – Why prayer prepares the soil 12:42 – Luke 8 — the parable of the sower, in full 14:27 – The footpath: people who don't engage 14:52 – The rocky soil: quick joy, no roots 15:25 – Story: the street gang who moved in — and the knife incident 18:58 – The thorny soil: choked by riches and busyness 20:41 – Why pursuing what we want disappoints in the end 22:31 – The math of the harvest: why one in ten still means exponential growth 24:24 – Seed sown now can bear fruit later 25:22 – Closing: pray, look for opportunities, be a laborer • • ** This is a personal podcast and reflects my thoughts and convictions. It does not represent any official position held by Youth with A Mission.** Thoughts from a Resident Alien https://lynngreen.blog <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/42593710/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/42593710