Oh do I agree with Spurgeon here!
As I prepare to preach 1 Peter 1:13 to a group of teens this weekend I want them to see this! Be Christian teenagers that are alive! Not just the average, drowsy, lifeless teen that walk into most youth groups.
Live with your eyes open; do not go about the world half asleep. Many Christians are asleep. Whole congregations are asleep. The minister snores theology, and the people in the pews nod in chorus. Much sacred work is done in a sleepy style. You can have a Sunday-school, and teachers and children can be asleep. You can have a tract-distributing society, with visitors going round to the doors all asleep; you can do everything in a dreamy way if so it pleases you. But says the apostle, — be watchful, be alive; brethren, look alive; be so awakened up by these grand arguments with which we have plied you already, that you shall brace yourselves up, and throw your whole strength into the service of your Lord and Master.” (Spurgeon, C H: A Seasonable Exhortation)
You can’t miss quoting Spurgeon. Great picture. Keep it up!