Everything I know about Evangelism I learned from from teenage girls in love on Facebook!

Enough of seminars and specialists and books. Find a teenager in love and see what Evangelism aspires to be.

Their status update is a constant litany of sameness. Waiting for a date with their boyfriend. Getting ready for a date with their boyfriend. On a date with their boyfriend. Just home from a date with their boyfriend. Planning the next date with their boyfriend. Their perfect, sweet, wonderful, cute, can-do-no-wrong heaven-sent angel who rules their every thought and dream.

They can hardly believe love happened to them. And they must tell you all about it.

It is as if they had invented love. As if no one had ever loved before. As if, in the entire history of humankind, there had never been such a perfect union of souls, as if God had invented this whole love thing just for them. As if each day dawned new simply because of their love. As if, by the sheer virtue of their presence on the planet, birds knew to sing and flowers learned to bloom.

And as a wise and grizzled veteran of love, you want to help them. You want to warn them that teen love is fleeting and insubstantial. You say that it will not last. You say things like grow up, go out and find a job, get serious about your life, you should play the field a little before you throw your future away over some boy.

They will not listen. Would you?

Teenage girls in love do not judge you. They barely notice you, and then only as a beneficiary over whom to gush about the perfection which is their love. They have a certain amount of pity for you, not enjoying such love, but if you’re interested, they know a certain cute boy, very sweet, and they could set you up with him, yeah, we should double date …

Teenage girls do not explain love. They do not knock on your door or hand you a pamphlet. They do not write treatises about love – they write poems and songs. They see their love in everything around them. They ruin bookcovers with hearts and flowers and practiced signatures. They do not care that they are using up their cell phone minutes or missing their favorite TV show. They are in love.

And if the slightest misspoken word or misdeed should endanger their relationship, then all life must come to a halt until amends are made, for they could never go on without their love.

You look at them with great scorn and deep jealousy. You are old and tired and you wish with every fiber of your being that you could feel that way again. But you’ve discovered life, and you have no time for fantasies and dreams like love and hope. But imagine if, even for a second, the church could be at least a little in teenage love with its perfect savior. What a different world it would be.

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