How to pass from adolescence to adulthood Biblically!

1. Chapel Objections:
 Go Deep
 Demonstrate how to publically minister
 Provide guests speakers
 Assist students in discovering their gifting
 Facilitate the chapel student take over

2. Transition Happens!
Embracing the awkward transition
from adolescence to adulthood.

3. I Corinthians 13:11-12
 11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought
and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up,
I put away childish things. 12 Now we see
things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but
then we will see everything with perfect
clarity. All that I know now is partial and
incomplete, but then I will know everything
completely, just as God now knows me
completely.

4. Transition Happens! (The past is past)
 “When I was a child”
 When = PAST TENSE!
 “Nobody can go back and start a new
beginning, but anyone can start today and
make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson (Fiction Writer in Princeton NJ)
 Understand that the Past is Past!

5. Lessons from Uncle Rico
 Napoleon Dynamite
 2004 comedy film co-
written and directed by
Jared Hess and
Jerusha Hess and stars
Jon Heder as Napoleon
Dynamite
 Uncle Rico Defined: “A
middle aged man stuck
in the 80s.” –urban
dictionary

6. Watch this quick video clip!
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7. Speech: “I spoke and thought and
reasoned as a child.” v11
 Words Children use:  Words Adult’s use:
– Credit – Savings
– Profanity – Praise
– Who will I date? – Who will I marry?
– Where can I get a job that – What did God design me to
makes lots of money? do?
– Do I have to? – How can I help?
– I’ll be fine – I’ll be Insured
– Live for the moment – Live for the Legacy
– BFF – Family
– Don’t have time for Children – Make time for Children
– What’s the easiest? – How can I be the best at…?
– I hate Politics – Vote to make a difference
– My life – Christ’s Life
– Want it Now! – Delay Gratification

8. Profanity = childish communication
 “When a man uses profanity to support an
argument, it indicates that either the man or
the argument is weak - probably both”
 author unknown
 Butnow is the time to get rid of anger, rage,
malicious behavior, slander, and dirty
language. - Colossians 3:8

9. Thinking: “I spoke and thought
and reasoned as a child.” v11
Childish Thinking:
 “In order to keep me from eating too many jelly
beans my father told me if I would plant them in the
ground I could grow a jelly bean tree. I faithfully
planted them whenever I got them and wondered
why my "seeds" never grew.”
 Bo Axford
 Question: What feels your “think tank?”
– Movies / Games?
– Girls / Boys?

10. Reasoning: “I spoke
and thought and
reasoned as a child.”
 Frontal Lobe  Dopamine
– The executive functions of – Often known as the “feel
the frontal lobes involve the good chemical,” dopamine
ability to recognize future is a chemical released in
consequences resulting the back of the brain during
from current actions, to times of happiness.
choose between good and Children have been found
bad actions (or better and to make the vast majority of
best), override and their decisions based on the
suppress unacceptable presence or absence of
social responses, and dopamine. Dopamine is
determine similarities and created during times of :
differences between things Food, Sex, Music, and
or events. Therefore, it is Drugs. Dopamine says: “If
involved in higher mental it feels good… do it!”
functions.

11. Growing up requires CHANGE!
 “But when I grew up, I put away childish things.” v11
 Recognize everyone hates change!
 BUT…
– “All appears to change when we change.”
– Henri Amiel
– “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change
the world are the ones who do.”
– Apple Computer Inc.

12. The ultimate transition!
 “Now we see things imperfectly as in a
cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything
with perfect clarity. All that I know now is
partial and incomplete, but then I will know
everything completely, just as God now
knows me completely.”
 Recognize we are all on this journey
together. You aren’t alone.

13. Review:
 How to transition into adulthood:
– Don’t live in the past
– Change the way you talk
– Change the way you think
– Change the way you reason
– Grow up! Embrace the Change!
– Recognize you aren’t alone!

14. Invitation:
I personally need to commit to growing up.
 I need help navigating through this transition
from adolescence to adulthood.