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Testing All Teenagers
Testing All Teenagers
Testing. Testing. 1 – 2 – 3 - 4. Testing. Testing. Can you hear me? It is how you check a sound system for the precision amount of sound and ability the audience can recognize what is spoken. Unless those tests are made, no one hears the message, the music, the production, the announcement, or the warning.
Testing. Testing. 1 – 2 – 3 – 4. Have you tested your values? What do you believe? Can you define it? Does it really matter to you? Has it made a difference in your thinking? Is godliness or social acceptance more important to you? Would you want to pass it along to your friend or your children? These are the tests in faith few teenagers are prepared to take. Some teenagers have no clear understand of what is truly most important.
If a child is told by a member of his family, “God comes before my job”, and they see the person in their family consistently working more and more hours away from family and worshipping God, they know what this family member’s REAL core value is.
Every teenager should take this test below to see where their faith is today and why.
(1) List all the important attitudes and behaviors you should believe, practice, and would want to see others practice.
(2) Reflect on your behavior and how you spend your time. How well does your life reflect the values you are willing to pass on to someone else?
(3) From your list, how many of them involve a life of godliness, seriousness, and righteousness?
(4) From your list, what outside influences are hindering you from practicing the values you believe are right?
(5) What three things would you start doing this week to make sure the list of values you made still become a part of your life by the time you are 25 years old?
“Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?” – 2 Corinthians 13:5
