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By title and design this book invites you to ask the deepest questions— questions of God, questions of promise, questions of belief. Did you ever wonder, “Why read the Bible?” or “What is the church?” or as a young person,“ How are my leadership and gifts accepted in the Episcopal Church?” Jenifer Gamber has developed this guide for you to ask your own deepest questions, and sets them in the context of history, tradition, and reason that reaches from the early church to today.How you use this guide is limited only by your imagination—you’ll discover ways to reflect on your own relationship with God, with your community, and even with your friends and classmates who take this journey with you.
In this book, Jenifer invites you—and I invite you, too—to consider this question: where is my ministry? What does it look like? What are my gifts to share? In this guide and through your reflection you will discover a variety of answers to these and other questions by actively responding to Scripture passages, to the lives of saints, and even to music and video. It’s amazing what the movie The Incredibles can say to you about your faith! In the least likely places you’ll discover the many gifts that you can use to do good in the world in the name of the love of God. In this book you will discover this and much more.
So take this text and risk a new step on your journey. Bring your real self to this experience and, along with the other teens in your group or class, you just might discover a new awareness of your growing faith. Remember, “The church community is with you to help you keep your promise of Baptism.” We need you to share the journey with us, too. Together, after all, we are the body of the living Christ.We all are the church.
Robyn Szoke
Associate Rector, St. John’s Episcopal Church
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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