=3 Hurting Teenagers


We'll Learn: Begin learning about teen growing years from our own past.

We've been there...done that; growing through teen growing years.

How are your own long-ago (family life) teen growing years different from today? We're not playing 'the Blame Game' here, but to see that just in family life alone, there is much for us mentoring seniors to take into consideration.
As a boy, I fondly remember the quiet times I spent fishing with dad. He certainly didn't have all the answers to life, but I give him an A for listening to me. Make a list of four people or groups that should be listening to today's teens. Grade each one of them.

As best as you can, describe an on-line social network. Describe what it is that causes youth to spend 6 and 7 hours A DAY in it (including half the night).

To help cut through some of our own traditional cobwebs, describe what you might imagine a heaven-managed social network would be like. How would it serve today's teenagers?

Using serious thought, why do you think that teens are leaving 'the church' (and taking their future leadership with them)?

Do you think teens see the selected use of technology in presentation and administration tasks in churches but never in Bible based messages and missions evangelistic calls?

Social networking programs make connection with half a BILLION others. How would you challenge teens to share God-honoring messages instead of discussing trivial fashion and peer activity?

What would those messages be like? Give examples.

How do you think the present employment situation affects teens? (their own job prospects and that of their parents?)

What thoughts do you have, when you see a teen with orange hair, or a girl with excessive facial jewelry and spooky use of black face cosmetics? If one of these teens told you they had much greater fear of their future, than you could ever have of them, what would you then think?

Be very honest with yourself. Do you believe God has any less power or less control now than when He split the Red Sea for Moses and the nation of fearful backsliders He sacrificed the very best that Heaven had to offer?

Is there just one boy and one girl teen you can diligently pray for each and every day, with more than just a few words?

How would you feel if that teen had been, and still is, watching you, for hope in their troubled soul?

Next, we'll begin the SENT Trio, to learn our marching authority, and associated elements.