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TITLE: Teens are Important (3 of 10)
TEXT: 2 Timothy 3:12-15
PROPOSITION: To understand teens – see their world.
QUESTION: What?
KEY WORD: Struggles
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
- To
adults – teens are immature, time to grow up
- To
teens – struggling with child and adult at same time
- Teens
are a vital part of the Family of God.
We must:
Understand their world – not try to put them into ours.
- Drugs
– USA Today poll showed high school teens:
- 63%
drink beer once a week
- 47%
use liquor weekly
- 25%
use marijuana
- 9%
use crack or cocaine
- Materialism
- Average
college student owes $5000 in credit card debt
- Want
now – pay later = credit debt
- Peer
pressure
- Pecking
order – some lead; others follow
- Desire
to be accepted (popular) – shoes, clothes
- Struggle
to be your own self
- Immorality
- STD
– Aids, abortion, pregnancy
- Single
teens – 15 yr = 24%; 18 yr = 60%; 21 yr = 82%
Understand the pressure they deal with
- Parents
– dumb, stupid, amount to nothing
- Peers
– hard to be a Christian in their world
- Society
– expects them be adult, mature
- Internal
– good grades, college, select a career, get a job
Understand how they act
- Lead
a beautiful prayer – so mature – 10 minutes later throwing football in the
parking lot
- Yes
– not fully mature, many problems, great pressure
- Still
– a powerful influence on the rest of the family of God.
- Love
them; Train them; Lead them; Teach them; Encourage them
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