And when we pull away from theological language, we're unable to define passion in a biblical way. The entertainment model is substituted. Teenagers want to change the world. They crave direct, sacred experience. They want to stand in God's presence.
Adolescence is a very theological place in the life cycle.
These are theological questions, and every teenager in history has had to be a theologian to answer them. Still, the idea of theological language seems a tenuous subject with so many denominations out there. Even that feels like a tall order. It's simpler than we might think. But we don't come to our answers alone.