Society says as young people we are lazy, naive, rebellious, and followers not leaders. The world does not expect much from us as young people and that has transferred over to the church. We are told we need to follow other's examples not be the examples. The bible has very different things to say, and I'm hoping as a young christian myself at 22 years old I can help other young Christians strive to be leaders not followers, to be servants not those who are served, to find worth in God's eyes not the world's eyes. 1 Timothy 4: 12 says, "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."
About me: My name is Caleb I am 22 years old and I recently graduated from Pepperdine University. I am not a young person who has been rejected by society so I am lashing out, quite the opposite. I found myself in college to be a part of the world, I drank, I partied, I went on spring break trips to Mexico, I was in a fraternity, I even modeled professionally in LA for a while. What I realized is that some where along the way I had succumbed to the World's expectations of what a college student should be and put God on the back burner. My mind set was that I had time to be a good Christian and an example when I was older, I realize now that there's no better time to serve God and be an example then the now. I have rededicated my life to Christ and helping young people do the same. I am a pseudo college intern at my church and can't wait to see the way God will challenge me.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Love the question. Basically when I started on tumblr, even before this account, I had another one and I just remember being discouraged because I never got to read any original thoughts from people or rarely anyways and I just really wanted to see what people thought on various issues. Not to say that there isn’t a lot of very inspirational posts that are reblogged, but I wanted to do something different I guess. I wanted to challenge people, more than just a post of a scripture that had been tossed around a couple thousand times because of the cool font and background. I kinda made a pact to challenge myself to put thought into every post I did, by saying I would never reblog a post. Honestly this has worked well for me, it forces me to sit down and think about things, and what I think young Christians need to hear and how I can relate it to our lives. It also really helps me study my bible because when I post something I want to make sure it’s biblical.
As far as lent goes, I don’t really participate ha, I mean everything I stopped doing has basically been in the runnings now for a few months. But I can tell you some of those things, drinking, partying, kissing girls, dating girls, texting girls nonsense text messages, basically a lot of things that could cause me to lust. I also try to read two chapters of the bible everyday and 1 Christian book a month.
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