Watch This: A Getting-There Guide to Manhood for Teen Guys: A Getting-There Guide to Manhood for Teen Boys - Softcover

Dean, Jeffrey

 
9781590529843: Watch This: A Getting-There Guide to Manhood for Teen Guys: A Getting-There Guide to Manhood for Teen Boys
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1590529847 ISBN 13: 9781590529843
Verlag: Multnomah, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Heard you were looking for cheat codes & walk throughs for getting it right. (Here ya go.)

Okay, so it’s possible you’re the first human being ever created just so you can muddle through life, add up to nothing, or crash and burn.

But probably not.

Probably–in fact, definitely–you’re here for a very big, very good reason. And God wants you to live it huge.

That’s the motivating message of Watch This, Jeffrey Dean’s new book for teen guys. Jeffrey has spoken–and listened–to thousands of students just like you. He understands the pressures and fears you face. And now he’s written a book that offers practical “getting there” advice for teens who want to experience everything God intends for their future. First, he helps you figure out who you are. Then he shows you from the Bible how to get where you want to go.

Oh, and not just get there. But have fun, bring glory to God. Because you’re not here for nothing. You’re here for something spectacular!

Check out the companion book: This Is Me: a teen girl’s guide to becoming the real you

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeffrey Dean is the founder of Jeffrey Dean Ministries. He has spoken to more than two million people in churches, schools, and prisons; and is the author of a multi-volume DVD-driven curriculum entitled Flood. Currently a speaker for Compassion International, he has partnered with ministries such as Youth for Christ, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Josh McDowell Ministries, Teen Serve Ministry, and thousands of local Boys and Girls Clubs across the country. Jeffrey and his family live in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Real Men Stand
What would it take to show the world the real you?

I still remember how it felt standing at the top of “the Big One.” Long before halfpipes and vert ramps, we simply had this steep, daunting hill. The journey down the Big One was the only way home from the neighborhood swimming pool, so for us there were only two ways down: walk or ride.

At the end of each day we’d stand gazing down the Mount Everest of blacktop, and then, one by one, the others would launch their boards until I was the only one left, standing alone with my board and a stomach full of fear. That’s when I would finally take off down the hill…sitting on my board. It took about fifteen seconds to actually make it down. But it only took five or six seconds for the insults to start flying.

“Stand up! Stand up, you sissy!” the other boarders would yell.

There was a protocol, the unwritten riding rule, and we all knew it. Stand, or be:
• a boarding baby
• a sissy skater
• a sitter

Anyone could sit down while surfing the Big One. That was easy. But it took a “man” to be willing to stand and conquer the holy hill, the supersurfing slope, the four-wheel ride of royalty, the… Okay, you get it.

Anyway, as a kid, I was not only afraid of heights, wasps, sleeping in the dark, and my older brother’s fist, I was also afraid of standing on a fifteen-by-five-inch orange plastic board on wheels as it traveled much faster than I dared, especially since, somewhere between the top and the bottom of the paved slope, I could experience real pain. So it didn’t take long for me to be labeled a “skating sissy.”

Brad, Eric, Steve, others whose names I can’t remember, and, of course, my older brother were just a few of our neighborhood boarding heroes who had mastered the Big One. Day after day they would sit poolside, bragging about their downhill dominance. I dreamed of having the courage to graduate from sitter to stander. Then I would have bragging rights and, most important, the respect of my older brother.

I’m not sure what made me decide to finally attempt to stand, but it might’ve had something to do with the fact that the Schubert twins, Laura and Leslie, who lived in our neighborhood and whose home was directly at the bottom of the Big One, were looking particularly lovely that summer day. They were watching, and they knew what it meant to stand. They knew about the boarding heroes. And unfortunately for me, they also knew that I was a sitter. I had to do something about that.

hit pause
Have you ever had one of those moments where you envisioned the finish line and everyone was there chanting your name as you were the first to cross? or that moment in the final seconds of the big game when the score is tied and the ball’s in your hands? or the Hail Mary spiral that’s thrown into the end zone as the final second ticks off the clock and your hands and the ball meet at just the right moment, and then you’re hoisted onto the shoulders of your teammates, and everyone is cheering for you, including that hot girl you’ve been checking out at school?

So I did it. I positioned my lead foot, I shifted my weight forward, and I pushed off. I guess it was somewhere around the seventh or eighth second that I realized I was moving much faster than I wanted to be moving. And just as quickly, I realized I no longer cared what Brad, Eric, Steve, my brother, or even the Schubert twins thought. Shortly after that moment of enlightenment, the pain began. I’m not exactly sure which body part met the pavement first, but eventually every inch of me got a closeup view.

Becoming one with the pavement is an experience unlike most I’ve encountered, one I hoped I’d never encounter again. But I did. Three days later. Same hill, same board, similar pain. I was determined to conquer that hill standing, with all my doubters watching. I never did. All I ended up with when summer was over were a few more bloody knees, skinned-up palms, and a scar on my arm that’s still there to this day.

think about it
If I’d said no that day atop the Big One and made my way down the hill sitting on my board, would that
have made me any less of a man? Or if I’d successfully surfed the hill standing rather than kissed the
pavement, would I be a better man today?

Hindsight tells me that attempting to master the hill wasn’t the smartest thing I’ve ever done. But we do some really dumb things when we’re trying to earn other people’s approval. I wanted to become something more than I was. I wanted everyone to watch what I could do, to see how I could accomplish something awesome. And I thought conquering the Big One was the way to show them.

WAT C H T H I S
Take a minute to look really deep into your heart and then consider
these questions:

• Do I want more from life than what I’ve got right now?
• Am I unfulfilled?
• Do I feel like something is missing from my life?
• Is there something inside of me that wants to be more, to not settle for just getting by?
• Can I be a better man than I am right now?

If you said yes to any one of those questions, then this book is for you. Watch This is a guide to becoming more, to finding that “something missing,” to becoming a man of God. The desire that led me to sacrifice my body on the Big One all those times was one most of us share as men: We want to take risks, show off, and win. We want to say “Watch this!” to the world and then accomplish something awesome.

What I didn’t realize was, my desire could be channeled into a better purpose–an eternal, God-given purpose. This book is meant to give you the tools first to find God’s purpose for you, and then to show the world what God can do through you. And as you work to follow him, God will be watching. And you’ll get way more than earthly praise. Check it out:

His master replied, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!” (Matthew 25:21)

Whatever pride and prizes you could’ve gotten by winning on your own, none of them will be as rewarding as what the Creator of the universe can give you when you live for him. So, do you want to learn how to do that?

It’s not as impossible as you might think. All you’ve got to do is trust the Man who made you. Because he:
• wants to transform you into something better than what the world says you should be
• has created you for a specific reason
• wants to develop in you the qualities necessary to do great things for him
• is at work in your life to give you a future beyond anything you can imagine

All the aspects of your life–dilemmas, temptations, celebrations, struggles, and choices–are coming together to uniquely make you into the man God wants to use, if you choose to let him.

T H E WO R L D ’ S S TA N D A R D S O R G O D ’ S ?
I may not have realized it at the time, but failing to conquer that hill taught me a valuable lesson. I learned that pleasing other people is not what makes me a man. Being a man isn’t about always winning, always being strong, always impressing the girls. Being a real man has nothing to do with this world’s rules and everything to do with God’s rules. I learned that being a man is not about standing when others demand it, expect it, or suggest it. Being a man is about standing for what you know is right. And, more importantly, standing...

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Verlag
Multnomah
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1590529847
ISBN 13 
9781590529843
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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