- Principle: God can be trusted. God will do all that he has promised to do.
- Crucial Question: Are you trusting God with every area of your life.
- Key passage: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Checkpoint #2 - Spiritual Disciplines:
- Principle: When you see as God sees, you will do as God says.
- Crucial Question: Are you developing a consistent devotional and prayer life?
- Key Passage: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God-what is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:2).
Checkpoint #3 - Moral Boundaries:
- Principle: Purity paves the way to intimacy.
- Crucial Question: Are you establishing and maintaining godly boundaries?
- Key Passage: For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one wrong or exploit a brother or sister in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, just as we have already told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness. Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8).
Checkpoint #4 - Healthy Friendships:
- Principle: Your friends will determine the direction and quality of your life.
- Crucial Question: Are you establishing healthy friendships and avoiding unhealthy ones?
- Key Passage: Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm (Proverbs 13:20).
Checkpoint #5 - Wise Choices:
- Principle: Walk wisely.
- Crucial Question: Are you making wise choices in every area of your life?
- Key Passage: Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is (Ephesians 5:15-17).
Checkpoint #6 - Ultimate Authority:
- Principle: Maximum freedom is found under God's authority.
- Crucial Question: Are you submitting to the authorities that God is placing over you?
- Key Passage: Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment (Romans 13:1-2).
Checkpoint #7 - Others First:
- Principle: Consider others before yourself.
- Crucial Question: Are you putting the needs of others ahead of your own?
- Key Passage: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death-even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:3-11).
SEVEN PRINCIPLES EVERY TEENAGER NEEDS TO KNOW:
- Andy Stanley and Stuart Hall, The Seven Checkpoints for Youth Leaders: Seven Principles Every Teenager Needs to Know, (New York: Howard Books, 2001).
- Andy Stanley and Stuart Hall, The Seven Checkpoints Student Journal: Seven Principles Every Teenager Needs to Know, (New York: Howard Books, 2001).
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