Your hosts continue the topic for the week on working with teens. Keeping teens is not always the same as reaching those teens for the purpose of communicating the Gospel.

* Good scriptural preaching rests upon relating the Scripture to life; and many preachers do not understand what relates to young people today.

* The "wants" of teenagers are often opposite than their "needs."

* Teenagers in every generation have been disappointed when seeing hypocrisy or inconsistency in their spiritual leaders.

* The internet has opened up a new avenue for teens to validate the messages which they hear.

* Generally teens are not smiling their way through life; but the fruit of the Spirit is joy.

* Substance is much more important than surface.

* The greatest qualification for working with teens are good examples - the kind of people you desire your teens to become.