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Adults In the Making -

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This leads to our fourfold strategy (each with its own team):

  • Education – weekly Sunday morning Christian Education
  • Recreation – 4x/year, various scheduled events
  • Service – 4x/year, various scheduled events
  • Discussion nights – 4x/year, equipping families in Christian discernment as it
    relates to the arts and pop culture (film, TV, music, etc.)

For further information, call the Christ Presbyterian office at (931) 906-6650

 

Youth is the seed-time of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life,
the turning-point in the history of man’s mind.”

J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), Thoughts for Young Men

“Historians talk of the ‘invention’ rather than the ‘discovery’ of adolescence because the
new views were not based on actual observation of youth behavior, but on new psychological theories.
In fact, prior to the mid-19th century, young people had been handling a great deal more freedom, independence
and responsibility (dominion), without suffering the dire consequences during puberty that the
psychologists predicted.”

Mardi Keyes, “Who Invented Adolescence?”

“If our programs are training teenagers to be reactive, immature Christians, we can expect those young people eventually to become discouraged by the difficulty and boredom of the Christian life. Could it be that the majority of our efforts in programming and publicity may, in fact, be moving teens away from rather than
toward mature Christian adulthood?”

Mark DeVries, Family-Based Youth Ministry

“We believe our generation is ready to rethink what teens are capable of doing and becoming. And we’ve noticed that once wrong ideas are debunked and cleared away, our generation is quick to choose a better way, even if it’s more difficult.”

Alex and Brett Harris, Do Hard Things

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Deuteronomy 6:4-9
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”