Blogging for Christian Teens
I started a new blog last week called Bible Bites 4 Teens. My heart has been burdened for the teens in my small town for some time. Our churches are small and their teen youth programs, with only a couple of great exceptions, are generally small and limited to non-existent. I would love to start up a multi-denominational youth group to benefit all of the churches, but the odds seem against me considering my age. I’m still praying about that.
But meanwhile, I’ve discovered that there is something I can do. I can blog for teens about the Bible. I am aware that teens aren’t out there looking for lots of reading material, so I’m keeping my posts short, focusing on only one or two verses from the Bible in each post, and tying it into the situations they face every day.
I may run Bible stories as well – if I do, they will probably run a little longer or be broken into smaller bites and made into a series for each story. Again, I will tie them into their life situations. I believe in telling the stories in a matter-of-fact kind of way trusting that teens really would like to know what the Bible says, though they might appreciate a few explanations here and there for understanding. I’m not into sugar-coating it as if it were intolerable without jazzing it up. Appropriately selected and placed questions should help youth to apply the stories to their lives – which is the reason for teaching them in the first place.
Some of the posts were written before this blog started. They are teen-oriented and came from my other blogs. For this reason they may not fit exactly into this plan, but they give the blog a little more content to start up with.
I covet your comments and suggestions on how to improve my blog. Please check it out at www.biblebites4teens. And if you like the blog, I would appreciate it if you would let the teens in your world know about it.
Janice D. Green