What do you think is the most important...

[toad_ster]

A friend of mine emailed me today. She is going to youth camp soon, and asked me a question I would like to ask everyone:

"What do you think the most important message that a teenager needs to hear?

gonna add on to this...and how do you rely it to them?

two fold to

important message for Christian teens
Non-christian teens

 

[Blessed-one]

Christians and non-christians: God loves you.
(it should have a better impact on those who don't feel loved, and that depends on how teens are these days)

 

[heydeerman]

They need to know that God is a righteous God who demands total righteousness in His kingdom. It is an impossible thing to aquire so He made way for us to be righteous through His Son's sacrifice on our behalf.

 

[ZiSunka]

"God loves you, no matter what, and He wants to be with you!"

and

"Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. " Romans 5:1

 

[KC Catholic]

God knew you before you were born. He knows everything about you and loves you for who you are. You are a special and unique creation from his hands. He know's your needs now and in the future and your heart will not rest until it rests with him.

 

[Stormy]

"What do you think the most important message that a teenager needs to hear?

God understands... Take it to him in prayer.

That would be my advise to a troubled teenager.

And...I think all teenagers are troubled. It is a rough time of life, if not the roughest.

 

[Thunderchild]

the most important message that a teenager needs to hear? Oh now, that is a tough one.

How about - the thing that speaks into that specific teenager's current life circumstances and in a way that encourages that teenager to walk the paths of God.

 

[TruelightUK]

Basically, that God loves him/her totally and unconditionally. That He may not always like everything they do, but that does not stop Him loving them - and whenever they may decide they need Him, He'll be there waiting to welcome them home and deal with whatever needs dealing with to enable them to enjoy His love forever.

Anthony

 

[psycmajor]

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness.

 

[Thunderchild]

psycmajor: Aye, that too.

OH... AND THANKYOU! a certain young woman will benefit indirectly but significantly from your input.

 

[coolhandluke]

as a teenager going through way too much stuff, a friend of mine said some stuff to me this weekend that really helped me a lot. basically the main thing he said was: it's all temporary. being a teenager is not cool. you're in that transitional stage. you're not a kid anymore, but you don't have all the responsibility or freedom of being an adult quite yet. but basically what he said to me was, even though it sucks, just trust in Christ, because these teenage years are temporary. this life is temporary. God is the *only* truly lasting thing we have, so we need to focus on that, and not let other things get us down too much, and distract us from that fact. and he also told me that things do get better as you get older. he just graduated from college, he's going to be 24 next month. he told me people aren't quite as stupid as they get a little bit older, they grow up some. anyway, i'm not doing justice to what he told me, but that's the general idea of it. it really was a tremendous encouragement to me, along with some other things he said.

-katie