Why Youths Are Leaving Church | The Hidden Testaments (ft. Ankur Kumar) | Episode 1

Why are young people stepping away from faith and leaving church today? In this premiere episode of 'The Hidden Testaments', we sit down with Ankur Kumar to tackle honest, often unspoken questions facing today's generation. From personal encounters with God and the struggle with guilt vs. grace, to peer pressure, addiction, and viewing church as a spiritual hospital—this candid conversation explores why youths feel disconnected and what it truly takes to bridge the gap. Whether you're wrestling with doubt, searching for direction, or passionate about youth ministry, we hope this conversation speaks to your heart. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 - Teaser & Introduction 01:29 - Welcome to The Hidden Testaments (ft. Ankur Kumar) 02:54 - Ankur Kumar's Personal Journey & Faith Encounter 09:16 - Staying Connected to God in a Busy World 14:28 - Vision & Burden for the Next Generation 18:50 - What Today's Youth Are Facing (Addiction & Struggles) 24:08 - Why Are Youths Leaving Church? (Guilt vs. Grace) 30:43 - Church as a Spiritual Hospital 32:08 - Rapid-Fire Questions & Spiritual Advice 34:25 - Final Message & Encouragement for the Youth 37:23 - Closing Thoughts & Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What are your thoughts on why young people are walking away from church? Share your perspective in the comments below—let’s discuss with grace and understanding. 🔔 Subscribe to Jyotish Praja for more episodes of The Hidden Testaments and thought-provoking discussions. 👍 If this conversation encouraged you, please give it a like and share it with someone who might need to hear it! #TheHiddenTestaments #YouthMinistry #ChristianPodcast #FaithJourney #ChurchLeadership ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️ COPYRIGHT & ATTRIBUTION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ All original audio, video, and materials belong to Jyotish Praja / The Hidden Testaments. Any third-party media used in this video is utilized under fair dealing / fair use principles for educational and commentary purposes. No copyright infringement is intended. For copyright concerns or inquiries, please contact [jyotishpraja.in@gmail.com]