All Christian parents want their children to grow up strong in their faith. But do you have a plan to accomplish that desire?
Greg Stier, writing on the Christian Post’s website offers several ways to help your teen accelerate their spiritual growth.
- First, teach them to pray. Then put them in a position where they have to pray….such as mission trips and spiritual challenges.
- Instead of another Bible lesson, tackle a tough, culturally relevant question. Get everyone’s honest thoughts and then take them to the Scriptures to unpack God’s raw and relevant answers.
- At the end of every lesson give them three challenges: 1) To do something specific that week to apply what they learned, 2) To share that truth with another Christian and 3) To use what they learned as a Gospel conversation starter with an unreached friend.
- Equip them with what it means to live in dependence on the Holy Spirit and not by trying to earn God’s approval through a legalistic checklist.
- Take them out sharing the Gospel with complete strangers once a month. There’s something about engaging people in evangelism face-to-face that enables teenagers to really wrestle through and own what they believe
- Use the Dare 2 Share formula for training: “Why? What? How? Now!”
- And Create a storytelling time in youth group every week where teenagers share stories (good, bad and ugly) of other teenagers they are seeking to reach with the hope of Jesus Christ.