Radically Different: A Student’s Guide to Community (Teacher’s Guide)

by Champ Thornton

Publisher:

New Growth Press

, 2019

Overview

Radically Different by best-selling author Champ Thornton is an insightful guide for middle and high school students who want to live radically even though life and relationships are complicated. By examining life through the biblical lenses of Creation, Fall, and Redemption, readers can explore how God’s Word untangles the twists of life.

There are so many areas of life to navigate when growing up, and this practical resource full of biblical wisdom helps middle and high school students find encouragement in the everyday challenges of life.

God made everything, including relationships, to be good. But because of the fall, everything including relationships with parents, friends, and siblings are also broken. Christ came to make all things new, and because of this biblical perspective, readers of Radically Different can know with clarity they are set apart as unique.

Thornton invites teenagers to consider how they are set apart especially in a time when Christianity is more and more culturally marginalized. He guides them to embrace what it means to live Christianly in a morally murky and increasingly hostile world.

Radically Different helps teenagers live in and relate to the reality of good, bad, and new, which makes us radically human, radically biblical, and radically different.

Key Features

• Invites teenagers to consider how they are set apart.
• Guides to embrace what it means to live Christianly in a morally murky and increasingly hostile world.
• Helps teenagers live in and relate to the reality of good, bad, and new.

Contents

• Introduction
• How to Use This Book
• Relating to God
• Week One: God
• Week Two: Good
• Week Three: Bad
• Week Four: New
• Week Five: Listening to God
• Week Six: Talking to God
• Week Seven: Worshiping God
• Relating to People
• Week Eight: Relating to Parents
• Week Nine: Relating to Friends
• Week Ten: Relating to Family
• Week Eleven: Difficult Relationships
• Week Twelve: Broken Relationships
• Week Thirteen: Church Relationships
• Acknowledgments
• Notes

Praise for Radically Different

A few years ago, many of your children probably read Champ Thornton’s The Radical Book for Kids (if they haven’t yet, they should). Now, those children are young teenagers and Champ has provided another resource that’s perfect for that age group. Radically Different challenges students to move beyond mere knowledge into deep community that’s grounded in the metanarrative of Scripture. I highly recommend this work!

—Timothy Paul Jones, C. Edwin Gheens Professor of Christian Family Ministry, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

It’s not easy for Christian young people today who want to live in a way that’s pleasing to God. However, Champ Thornton has provided an invaluable resource to help middle school students be distinctive. Radically Different is a practical, hands-on study offering solid insights and biblical guidance for relating to others.

—Jim Daly, President, Focus on the Family

The middle school years can be difficult for kids. It can also be a struggle for many parents to find age-appropriate Christian resources to help young tweens and teens process faith, friendships, and family. Champ Thornton’s new book, Radically Different: A Student’s Guide to Community, is a wonderful way to help teens learn about God and the story of Scripture, as well as how the Bible relates to their daily lives. This book is the exact resource I’ve been hoping to find!

—Melissa Kruger, Director of Women’s Content, The Gospel Coalition; author of 5 Things to Pray for Your Kids

Product Details

• Title: Radically Different: A Student’s Guide to Community (Teacher’s Guide)
• Author: Champ Thornton
• Publisher: New Growth Press
• Print Publication Date: 2019
• Pages: 144
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781645070320, 1645070328
• Resource ID: LLS:RDCLLYDFFRNT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-25T18:10:58Z

About Champ Thornton

Champ Thornton (PhD, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is an acquisitions editor at Crossway and the author of numerous books for kids and families. He and his wife, Robben, live in Newark, Delaware, and have three teenage children.