Youth Lesson Preparation for LDS Teachers

Teaching teenagers in the Church is one of the most important and most challenging callings. Youth are at the age where they are deciding what they believe - and a lesson that talks down to them or feels irrelevant to their lives will lose them fast. The best youth lessons are honest, ask hard questions, and trust young people to wrestle with the gospel for themselves. LDS Sunday School helps you build lessons that respect the intelligence and experience your youth bring to the room.

Key Principles

• ✓Ask questions you do not already know the answer to - teenagers can tell when you do not
• ✓Connect every doctrine to a real decision or situation teenagers actually face
• ✓Let them talk - a room full of teenagers sharing is more powerful than any lecture
• ✓Be honest about hard questions - pretending they do not exist is worse than addressing them
• ✓Testimony is caught as much as taught - share yours, and let them share theirs