Just found an old picture of me leading an evangelism training in high school before we went out for “Friday Night Soulwinning” 42 years ago.

Although I was only 17 years old when this picture was taken, the youth leaders put me in charge of taking teens out to local shopping malls to share the gospel with other teens. 

I was not an extraordinary teenager . I was an ordinary teen (who obviously didn’t own a comb) who was given extraordinary training and entrusted with extraordinary responsibility.

The reason I was given these responsibilities was because I had amazing youth leaders (most in their early twenties) who believed in the power of the Gospel and potential of youth. 

They trained us teenagers to make disciples who make disciples. 

So we did.

Sometimes people ask me why I am so passionate about mobilizing teenagers to share their faith through @dare2shareministries and my answer is this: Because I was mobilized as a teenager and it transformed me. 

The mission of the Great Commission gave me a sense of purpose. As a fatherless, poor, street kid who lived in apartment complexes and trailer courts, it gave me a much needed sense of purpose.

Teenagers of all kinds need 3 things: identity, belonging and purpose. Give them Jesus. Then equip them to spread the good news with their peers. As a result they will be blessed with all three.

#RadicalLikeJesus