LOVING THYSELF BIBLE STUDY FOR TEENS HOW TO

The world needs to figure out what to do with teens and where they fit into the neat categories of society. The above statements are just a few statements that would describe the modern teen.

LOVING THYSELF BIBLE STUDY FOR TEENS HOW TO

Young persons experience numerous physical and social changes, often making it difficult for them to know how to behave.Teenagers seldom have clear roles of their own in society but instead occupy an ambiguousperiod between childhood and adulthood.During adolescence, issues of emotional (if not physical) separation from parents arise.Here are some of the phrases they use to describe the time between childhood and adulthood: (Kellemen, pg.100) Insufficient description of teens by humansĪ brief Google search found a definition of teenager/adolescent in the Britannica dictionary ( Adolescence | Definition, Characteristics, & Stages | Britannica). Biblical counselors must view teens as the Creator views the teen vs. I want to address how to view teens comprehensively as God does.

In this blog, I will refer to pre-teens/adolescents/teenagers as teens knowing each developmental season has its own challenges. While all those things are important and must be weighed and listened to, I propose we start with God’s intended design for teens. Teens with big emotions desire to be known and heard (Proverbs 18:13). I want to acknowledge with empathy that each teen’s story is unique and is not exactly one size fits all. We often look at the teen we serve and evaluate them based on their symptoms, the data about their culture, personal story, or even their current emotion. Counseling teens is like counseling adults. In this blog, I want to investigate how to view the teen with big emotions biblically. God’s design and the teen with big emotions Counselors who work with teens can offer the greatest hope as they seek to share in kindness all of God’s love and truth biblically.

Yet God knows each student’s story, and He loves them. The teen years can be so hard and confusing. I had a flashback of my freshman high school experience and had PTSD-like emotions. When she came across an alien planet, the captain would ask her what she sensed, and she would cry out, “I FEEL PAIN!” Even as I think about this story, I sense those big emotions that come specifically in the teen years, with the unknown and relationships, new and old. All sorts of emotions were evident, fears, like whom will I sit with, will I have the same friends after a whole summer? What will they be wearing? Will they ask me to talk out loud and participate in goofy games? Why am I so nervous? This is awful! Observing the interactions with the students, I felt like Counselor Troi from Star Trek, Next Generation, who was known for her alien gift of ESP (extra sensory perception), an empath. Can you imagine this? There were 70-plus freshmen some knew each other from the years before, some were brand new to the school, some transferred over with their friends from their middle school, and some were new to Indiana, and the U.S. It was freshman orientation day, and I was a part of the team working with the students. Writing this section reminds me of my first day as the biblical counselor, working with students here at Faith Christian School.

Loving thyself bible study for teens