“I’ve read many stories and testimonies of Christian brothers and sisters, including Jesus, and almost all SKIP a portion in their
lives: the teenage years. So, how and what is an effective way to show, shine,
and represent our faith as hormonally crazy teenagers??”
There’s a very good reason many personal accounts
leave out the teen years: our teen years are frequently riddled with
embarrassing incidents we would rather not even recall, let alone repeat to
others, along with more than a few tales that might not be all that profitable in
the telling. Most of us learn by failing, and some of us learn by failing
repeatedly. Our very first attempts at anything are likely to be our absolute worst,
whether it’s witnessing or asking a girl out on a date. Who wants to hear about that?
Also, people who write testimonies usually
wait until they have lived a bit, which means they have also had time to forget
the things that happened long in the past, or that did not directly and
obviously contribute to the circumstances around their salvation.