1. Youth is a strategic window of opportunity

I believe that God has designed the teens and early twenties as formational periods that both older and younger men and women should recognize. The older should avail themselves to the opportunity and the young should seize the opportunity. Youth is a season of inquiry and desire for significance. It is particularly formational. I believe that these years have significant and disproportionate leverage for the future.

2. Don’t miss the strategic window

It is a common trap for older men to be caught up in their busyness, and the younger men to be entrapped by unprofitable activities, while there is an enormous opportunity for the older to teach the younger. This is the way God designed it - he provides the older for the younger. If you are one of those older ones, look around to see whom the Lord may have for you to invest in. Pray for the young. Gravitate toward them. Conversely, if you are younger, look for the best mentors near you in your church and seek them out. Don’t miss the window.

3. Mentors won’t hunt you down