Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young,
but set an example for the believers
in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. I Timothy4:12 (NIV)

Serve

• Intern with your pastor or in your church office. Volunteer to help once a week in whatever way needed.
• Serve at your local homeless shelter or other transient ministry.
• Volunteer in a local elementary school.

Lead

• Junior or Senior? Visit: www.summeryouthinstitute.org. This is a great leadership development event.

Misc

• Practice giving, and giving up. In a book entitled Way To Live, I read about a teenager who was challenged by her youth pastor to give up one material possession for every day of lent. Well, Lent isn't every day... Try this practice for the upcoming week. Practice depending on God — not things.
• Buy a composition notebook and start a journal. Seek after God's answers to the following question: "How can we, the church, be relevant in the world?" There's a lot to this question. First off, what's the world like that we're supposed to be relevant in? What we've seen is that for the most part, the good fight today is about standing up (not to individual wrongdoings, or sins but) to structual sin. Journal about everytime you see suffering, everytime you see a problem that seems unsurmountable. It is in these issues that the church must become relevant. Seek after answers from God. We believe God will inspire us with answers to the issues of our world.