Please Consider

I don't know if you have ever been to the Dare 2 Share Conference but you should consider going. We take our junior and senior high every year. The last couple of years we have taken them to the Chicago location for the conference. Dare 2 Share is exactly what it sounds like. It gives teens the know how to talk to their friends, family, and strangers about Christ in a way that makes it a little easier for them.

The kids are challenged while they are there to call one of their friends on their cell phones (no teenager is without one!) and share the Good News with them. Some of them graduate right away from P.U. (persecution university)! We all consider that an honor.

When we first started attending (a mere 6 years ago) there were only about 400-500 teenagers that attended. This year there were more than 6,000! Praise be to God!!! These "krazy kidz" are really impassioned about The Cause of Christ (the great commission)!


One thing really gave me Holy Spirit bumps this year. Greg Stier, the pastor, was talking to all of us about the next Great Awakening. He was telling us that all the "Great Awakenings" have started with teenagers. He then began to tell how he thought the first one did also. You know, Pentecost.

You may not agree with me but just consider this. It is very possible that Jesus--the Promised Messiah, the Only Begotten of the Father, our Savior and Lord--was a youth leader and that the Apostles were under the age of 20 Consider: Jesus Himself was only 30 years old when He began His public ministry.

Consider: Jesus paid the Temple Tax and provided the tax coin for Peter. Men had to be over 20 years old to pay that tax. The Bible doesn't mention that the others had to pay the tax, so they possibly were younger than 20.

Consider: Only Peter's wife is mentioned, so it is possible that the others were not yet married.



Consider: The Apostles readily left their regular jobs to follow; they might have hesitated more if they had had wives and children to care for.

Consider: They had the passion and energy of youth.

Consider: A couple of them squabbled over position in the Kingdom, and the others got upset over the issue. That seems a rather youthful response--although I've certainly known older folks who have acted like bickering children at times.

Consider: I Timothy 4:12~Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Consider: America is ripe for another Great Awakening. Will it begin with you, young man? Or you, young woman? May this generation, empowered by the Holy Spirit, boldly lead in such a work. Take up the Cause of Christ.