Alex and Brett Harris have set the bar high for teens. Christianity Today has a good interview with these two twenty year olds whose challenge to teenagers has led to conferences, books, and a website logging 1.2 million hits a month.
Our society expects very little of teens. They expect us to be immature and irresponsible. They don't expect us to do anything meaningful or to care about meaningful things. But that's a lie. [It's part of this culture's] myth of adolescence, a view of the teen years as a vacation from responsibility. But that's not a biological stage. It's a cultural mindset. You don't just flip a switch at a certain age and become responsible and mature. Those are muscles that you have to work out.
Young people are capable. We are challenging them to discover that by challenging themselves for the glory of God. We combined the words rebellion and revolution to create a concept we call "the Rebelution," a teenage rebellion against low expectations.
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