Gates & Fences
Subtitle: Straight Talk in a Crooked World
Publisher: Affirming Faith
Published: December, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780979862700
Subjects: Christian Education - Children & Youth; Christian Ministry - Youth; Religion : Christian Education - Children & Youth
First sentence: We're Christians. If God Almighty says "no," that should be the end of the discussion...right?
Description: Examining the blessings of biblical boundaries for youth/singles. Great resource for leaders and individuals. 

Highly recommended by pastors, teachers and homeschool parents, "Gates & Fences" reaches into the real world of teens and singles.  In a direct, yet tactful manner, the author uses personal stories, humor, Scripture and solid biblical teaching to address the blessing and protection of living in biblical boundaries.  "My goal is to provoke young people and singles to consider the 
choices they are making," Wagner said. "We need to ask ourselves, what's my motivation? What are the  possible consequences? And, most importantly, is the path my choices put my feet on leading the direction I want to be headed?"    

"Gates & Fences" is about pursuing God's best as readers grow in understanding of the role and benefit of biblical guidelines.  Some of 
the "fences" covered are modesty, purity, and respecting authority.  "Gates" are ways people interact with boundaries, such as early dating, entertaining temptation, also the physical gates of eyes, ears and mouths.  Each chapter concludes with prayer, Q&A and a journaling page.
Table of contents: value: 1. Life Inside the Gates and Fences (The Blessings of Biblical Boundaries); value: 13. The "Eyes" Have It (The Gateway of Vision)