Let s face it folks, worship services rank pretty low on most teenagers scale of favorite activities, somewhere between reading the phone book and watching rocks erode. This changes under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Using a guitar in the service may not help kids relate if you re playing hootenanny music. They need to worship God in a cultural idiom they find relevant. Third, koinonia explosion .
Friends are very important to young people.
When kids know these friends are spiritual brothers and sisters, their relationships can be much more intimate than anything groups of adults usually experience. Christian adults have a lot to learn from renewed kids on this point, especially in America where our individualism and mobility have undermined and cheapened interpersonal commitment. And finally, manifested gifts . This is the most startling aspect of the Spirit s work in young people. When kids start exercising gifts of teaching, wisdom, administration, etc., it slaps our prejudices right in the face.