DAY 2
OUR PRESENT CULTURE’S
OUR PRESENT CULTURE’S
EXPECTATIONS OF THE YOUTH
If we Google the words teens and expectations, we will find the following:
"teens and drugs, teens and alcohol, teens and smoking, teens and drinking, teens and marijuana, teens and cell phones"
"teens and drugs, teens and alcohol, teens and smoking, teens and drinking, teens and marijuana, teens and cell phones"
Even Google has low expectations for teens!
An author of an article called “A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Teen Years” listed suggested expectations for teens:
For preteens and younger teens (10-14)
Make your bed everyday
Be able to take a message on the phone
Clean your room every week (with help from Mom and Dad)
Make your bed everyday
Be able to take a message on the phone
Clean your room every week (with help from Mom and Dad)
For older teens (15 and up)
Do a daily chore (just one) like taking out the trash
Make sure the gas gauge stays above a quarter of a tank
Clean your room every week (with no help from Mom and Dad)
Do a daily chore (just one) like taking out the trash
Make sure the gas gauge stays above a quarter of a tank
Clean your room every week (with no help from Mom and Dad)
The article includes an encouragement to parents about the list:
“Please do not feel that your teenager should be doing all of them.”
WHAT EXPECTATIONS SHOULD WE LIVE BY?
The Bible tells us not to live by the expectations of this world.
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed in the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2
The Bible tells us not to live by the expectations of this world.
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed in the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2
Instead of allowing the cultural expectations to become your standard, let God’s standards as revealed in His Word be your measurement in how you live your teen years.
When you do this, you will be able to go beyond the limits and reach your true potential in Him.
When you do this, you will be able to go beyond the limits and reach your true potential in Him.
WHA T THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT BEING YOUNG
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.”
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.”
1 Timothy 4:12
God has high expectations for those who are considered to be young! WOW!
When some might look down or excuse young adults, God calls them to be examples! WOW!!
Greek culture placed great value on age and experience.
Timothy was young by the standards of that culture, but God expects him to lead.
Where our culture might expect little, God expects great things!!! WOW!!!
Timothy was young by the standards of that culture, but God expects him to lead.
Where our culture might expect little, God expects great things!!! WOW!!!
COMPOSE a PRAYER for YOU TO BE EXTREME for the PURPOSES of GOD:
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