1 Year of TEEN CHALLENGE

What would happen if every Christian teenager was Challenged to do their best for God, and then did it?

This is the question I wanted an answer to. I have gotten some very good answers. The video placed below has some of them in it, and others are posted below. I will post the full answers of the men who answered my question later this month. 

As TEEN CHALLENGE enters its second year of existence, I would like to focus on this: Use what God has given you. Use everything He has given you, no matter how much or how little. Live your life with the intent of serving God. Make it your purpose for living. No matter what we accomplish in life, it means nothing if it is not for God. Make your life matter.

"If every Christian teenager was challenged to do their best for God and did it...

A generation would rise up like Enoch walking with God; like Samuel, hearing from God as a youth; like David, after God's own heart; like Isaiah, seeing the Lord high and lifted up; like Jeremiah, weeping over the lost; like Daniel greatly beloved of God, always praying for his people, and the world would be turned upside down once again, by that generation, who like Esther, had come to the kingdom for such a time as this." 

-Pastor Joseph Lang, Berean Baptist Church, White House, TN

                                                                     

                                 Click here to see the video: Do Your Best                                                                                                     

    

Answers from Readers

"It's a loaded question. Definitely very thought provoking. 

Christian Teen life would definitely be a bit different. I've seen teens who do profess Christianity, but their heart just isn't passionate. I've seen others who do want to follow God, but they allow distractions to keep them from their full potential. But if they all did their best...Wow. 

And what a challenge even in my own life. Sometimes I want to erase part of my past, but I can't, all I can do is change my actions here and now. And I make mistakes far more often than I like to think. Isn't there a song like "He's Still Working on me"?  I've much more to learn from God's Holy Book. 

It makes me think of two songs: "Have I done my best for Jesus?" and "Our Best". 

Hear ye the Master's Call: give me thy best. For be it great or small, that is His test. Do then the best you can, not for reward, not for the praise of men, but for the Lord! Every work for Jesus will be blessed, but He asks from everyone his best. Our talents may be few; these may be small, but unto Him is due: our best our all!"

-Naomi R., age 14

"The Bible says, I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."  If we all did "our best" through Christ, the world would be changed- be turned around completely, forever diffrientified."

-Josiah, age 14

"If every teenager was challenged to do their best for God - and then did it, every person on the earth would have a chance to accept Christ as their Saviour. "And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." (Mark 16:15) If every teen is doing their best for God, then they will be witnessing to others. Christ does not give us commands that are impossible, so if we are to 'preach the gospel to every creature' that means that it's possible to reach everyone. All Christ needs is people that are willing. There are around 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 19 and only 7.2 billion people total. That means if each teenager were to reach an average of 6 people every person on the earth would hear the good news."  

-Bethany Senecal, Age 21