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

Radically Differentby best-selling author Champ Thornton is an insightful guide for middle and high schoolstudents who want to live radically even though life and relationships are complicated. By examining lifethrough the biblical lenses of Creation, Fall, and Redemption, readers can explore how Gods Word untanglesthe twists of life.

There are so many areas of life to navigate when growing up, and this practical resource full of biblical wisdomhelps 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, everythingincludingrelationships with parents, friends, and siblingsare also broken. Christ came to make all things new, andbecause of this biblical perspective, readers ofRadically Differentcan know with clarity they are set apartas unique.

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

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

AUTHOR

ChampThornton is an associate pastor at Ogletown Baptist Church inNewark, Delaware. He has pastored in SouthCarolina and served asdirector of SOMA, a ministry training school in Columbus, Ohio. He is host of "In the Word, On the Go," a ten-minute podcast for families and isthe author of severalbooks, includingThe Radical Book for KidsandPass It On: A Proverbs Journal for the Next Generation.Champandhis wife, Robben, have been married since 1996 and have threechildren.