Do Hard Things

Aug 19–20, 2010 - comments: 3

On today’s For Faith and Family we welcome Alex and Brett Harris to the program. They are here to help us encourage young people to stop seeing their teenage years as a “vacation from responsibility” and to realize that they can do hard things for God. Alex and Brett founded TheRebelution.com in 2005 to encourage young people to ignore the low expectations of society and to do hard things now. Since then they’ve written two books and developed a summer conference tour on the subject…all by the age of 20.

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1 On Aug 19th, 2010, at 10:51pm, Joe Tom McMahon wrote:

I just listened to the very last of the interview with Alex & Brett Harris tonight on my local APR station for Waco/Mart, TX.  I was very impressed with the speaker’s spiritual maturity and his expectations for our Nation’s young people.

God bless you, Alex & Brett, for the work for God that you are doing.  You really prove what young people are capable of with their God-given abilities as they apply themselves.

It is refreshing to know there are young people in this Country who will stand up for what is right, work for a cause that is greater than themselves and not buy into the notion that “they can’t” handle responsibility because they are not adults.

God bless you, young people, for your stand for Christ.

In Christ’ Love,

Joe Tom McMahon
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2 On Aug 20th, 2010, at 6:03pm, RE Ramcharan wrote:

If I understand the argument correctly, teenagers are being handicapped in later life by the low expectations of their elders.  Organizing conferences is all well and good, but may
I suggest that the Harris Brothers introduce themselves to the United States Navy, where an 18-year-old quartermaster may himself responsible for the lives of 5,000 sailors aboard a multi-billion-dollar aircraft carrier as he steers it through a hazardous channel.

3 On Aug 21st, 2010, at 8:25am, Jonathan Vinter wrote:

I only caught the last few moments of the radio program on Friday and was encouraged as one of your guests spoke of resting in God’s power to speak before an audience.  But the power of that message was lost as his advice from there did not seem uniquely biblical or gospel centered.  Using the example from US history of one of the great presidents, the message was “commit do hard things for God” But try harder and you will succeed is not a Christian message.  It’s moralism, it may be motivational for some but it’s not the gospel.  Trust in self will only take a person so far.  It may give him great success in this world but whe he stands before the LORD He may very well say, “depart from me, I never knew you.”  If your goal is merely temporal encouragement and not disciple-making then I suppose you’re on the right track.  It’s the Spirit and the word that brings genuine transformation (Galatians 3:1-5) and only the gospel is the power of God for salvation. (Romans 1:16-17)

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