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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:

  1. To adults – teens are immature, time to grow up
  2. To teens – struggling with child and adult at same time
  3. Teens are a vital part of the Family of God.

 

We must:

 

Understand their world – not try to put them into ours.

  1. Drugs – USA Today poll showed high school teens:
    1. 63% drink beer once a week
    2. 47% use liquor weekly
    3. 25% use marijuana
    4. 9% use crack or cocaine
  2. Materialism
    1. Average college student owes $5000 in credit card debt
    2. Want now – pay later = credit debt
  3. Peer pressure
    1. Pecking order – some lead; others follow
    2. Desire to be accepted (popular) – shoes, clothes
    3. Struggle to be your own self
  4. Immorality
    1. STD – Aids, abortion, pregnancy
    2. Single teens – 15 yr = 24%; 18 yr = 60%; 21 yr = 82%

 

Understand the pressure they deal with

  1. Parents – dumb, stupid, amount to nothing
  2. Peers – hard to be a Christian in their world
  3. Society – expects them be adult, mature
  4. Internal – good grades, college, select a career, get a job

 

Understand how they act

  1. Lead a beautiful prayer – so mature – 10 minutes later throwing football in the parking lot
  2. Yes – not fully mature, many problems, great pressure
  3. Still – a powerful influence on the rest of the family of God.
  4. Love them; Train them; Lead them; Teach them; Encourage them


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