Rev. Eric Larson is a PCA pastor with a doctorate in youth, family and culture who has worked with adolescents and emerging adults since 1990 and taught applied theology through Mission to the World (MTW)’s NEXT Institute and lead-growing teams throughout sites in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US. He and his wife, Rebecca, founded NEXT in 2007, focusing on today’s largest unreached people group: 10-30 year olds. Their mission is to serve the global Church in reaching the next generation. Eric taught on youth missions in Grenada.
“Christmas means that, through the grace of God and the incarnation, peace with God is available; and if you make peace with God, then you can go out and make peace with everybody else. And the more people who embrace the gospel and do that, the better off the world is. Christmas, therefore, means the increase of peace—both with God and between people—across the face of the world.”