There are many challenges to answering the Christian call to fullness of life. Temptations and distractions are two major causes that hinder the Christian fullness to life. Sinful ppertunities arise in front of you daily and are tempting you to sin. You have two choices, sin or walk away which is harder to do than to just commit the sinful act.
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Ethan Tanney
8/24/2010 08:36:55 am
All around us, there are many challenges to answering the christian call. Sinful acts and peer pressure, cause many to travel down the wrong path. Friends tempt others to do wrong cause they think its fun or kool. Saying no to your peers is a hard thing to do, and makes it very difficult sometimes to travel down the right path towards christian fullness. Challenges are everywhere around us, it takes strength and faith to make the right decisions.
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Elyce Doering
8/24/2010 09:01:26 am
for me the biggest challenge to living a Christian life is the sacrifices i must make. Prayer is necessary to be a strong Christian and although prayer is refreshing and helps guide you spiritually, it is difficult to make the sacrifice of time to pray. Beyond our time commitment, we are called to sacrifice our resources, gifts, and tallants. Although it requires a lot of effort, the benefits of being a Christian outweigh the sacrifices we must make by far.
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Maggie Kutz
8/24/2010 09:04:25 am
In our every day lives there are so many challenges that try to call us away from answering the christian call. It's so hard to not just give in to the tempting things because most of the time the sinful acts that lead us away from christian living are the things that we consider fun. In today's society especially people media and friends are telling you its okay to do what you want when you want because thats how life is. saying no to all the sinful things that lead us away from christian fullness is almost impossible to do and it is a constant struggle to try and do that right thing. It takes so much faith and determination to make the right choices and live a christian life.
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Maria Your Favorite
8/24/2010 09:35:11 am
Temptations are everywhere in our lives. No matter what, we aren't going to be perfect. Then again, God isn't asking us to be. The fullness of life in my opinion is doing things in the name of God that make you happy and the people around you happy, loving unconditionally, and doing good for others as well as for yourself. In the end God doesn't care if you are a billionaire or dirt poor, whether you show up to church in a dressy outfit or in rags as long as you come for the right reasons. What matters is how you live your life and push right through the challenges which make us better people. Lying, cheating, and stealing are just a few challenges. There are too many to name. Answering the Christian call to fullness of life can be done by overcoming these challenges.
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Meg Albright
8/24/2010 09:52:43 am
There are many challenges to answering God's call. People must break barriers such as belief and restrictions, and then they will be able to fully trust in God. However, I believe that the only way to truly live a full life is to be content with yourself and to be happy with your life, after this the rest will fall into place.
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Bridget Lyons
8/24/2010 10:24:54 am
In order to answer the Christian call for fullness of life we must be committed and faithful to God. This is challenging to do because our everyday lives are hectic, stressful and demanding leaving little time to focus on God's call and our Christian duties.
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Haley Rataiczak
8/24/2010 11:37:19 am
I think what challenges us the most in answering the call to living a Christian life would be that humans, more often than not, can be selfish and only look out for themselves. When God calls us to do something, he's asking us to put ourselves last so we can fully serve Him and others. We have to break through that wall so we can learn to be accepting of his plan for us, as well as accepting of those around us.
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Joe Vidmar
8/24/2010 12:53:36 pm
There are many things that challenge us to answer the call to fullness of life by Christian means. There are minor distractions and the temptation of sins. There is also self realization and accepting your faith in God. You really need to be sure of yourself and answer God's call
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Sydney Martis
8/25/2010 12:46:51 am
The challenges to fulfilling a Christian life is that it is not a popular thing to do. So many people are not responding to religion and choosing to regect Jesus. They don't realize that the reason that they are placed on this world is only to serve God's will. They are often torn away from the path to Jesus. The true challenge is to stay on the path that has been set out for you. Only once you choose to stay on the path will you ultimately fulfill your Christian call.
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Johnnie Lemons
8/25/2010 01:26:11 am
The challenge to fulfilling a Christian life is hard to do. The way society works now you have to many distractions on livin the perfect Christian life. Between the media and it not being the cool thing to do the challenge is hard to do.
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Juliet DiCillo
8/25/2010 01:45:28 am
The challenge of fulfilling a Christian life is a difficult task to achieve, because people are pulling away from their religious life. We have a path created for us by God and He wants us to stay on that path. But along the way there are forks in the road and we must make a decision on what to do which is the challenge.
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James Palladino
8/25/2010 02:06:39 am
The Challenger to fulfilling a christian lief is hard because there are too many obstacles we face that us as humans can't always make the right decision. TOo many friends
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Elizabeth Penko-Suk
8/25/2010 04:26:27 am
The challenge of fulfilling a christian life is diffucult because of all the changes and deturrances in the world. Also the new trends that are constantly happeneing sometimes make it difficult to live in a life totally devoted to your religion becasue of the outside influences.
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Rodger Bramley
8/25/2010 05:45:37 am
I feel that the hardest part in embracing the fullness of life comes from being able to embrace both our faith and then opportunity. Embracing Christianity, or whatever religion is a major issue that is very difficult for many practitioners to accomplish. It is difficult to trust in any entity enough to turn one's life over to it, and unless one can do just that they will find it difficult to fully embrace the fullness in life. Also, seizing opportunity in front of us is a major challenge. Sometimes fear and insecurtiy hold us back, and keep us from fully embracing life.
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Jennifer Sloat
8/25/2010 06:19:45 am
There happen to be many challenges that lie in the way of answering the Christian call to fullness of life. Such can include peer pressure, temptation, lying, stealing, and cheating, which in reality is sin. However it is you, yourself that can be the biggest challenge because you are the one making the decisions, you are the one that motivates yourself, and you are the one that ultimately takes the first step to answering God’s will. The challenges lie in your hands, it’s whether you are committed to following them or trying to get around them that can hinder or precede your action as a Christian towards embracing life.
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Erin Malone
8/25/2010 07:03:57 am
There is a wide variety of challenges to answering the Christian call of fullness of life. The decisions that we make everyday affect our Christian life. With decisions comes responsibilty and temptations. Making the wrong decision leads to sin which in turn, takes us off of the path that leads to our fullness of Christian life. I believe that judgement from your peers may also be a challege of living a Christian life. Too many times are people made fun of for doing the right thing or choosing not to participate in illegal activities. In conclusion, the biggest challege of answering the Christian call to fullness of life is the temptation of sin.
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Courtney Radtkin
8/25/2010 07:09:52 am
There are many challenges to answering the Christian call of fullness of life. We must know who we are and not be afraid to show our true self and express our faith. We also have crazy lives, making it hard to always focus on our Christian duties. I believe if you pray, do good for others, and be yourself it is a good basis for what you need for the Christian call of fullness of life.
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Kristen McTernan
8/25/2010 07:21:09 am
The biggest challenge in answering the Christian call to fullness of life is temptation. We face numerous temptations everyday in life. No matter how much we may want to, walking away from these temptations is always harder than just giving in to them.
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Chuck Seacrist
8/25/2010 07:26:42 am
There are many things that make it difficult to live a Christian life to its fullness. All around us everyday there are temptations that are unmoral that seem almost impossible to resist. This as a teenager becomes even more difficult if our friends are giving into these temptations, and we feel that in order to fit in we should also give in. This is what makes it so hard to live a fulfilling christian life.
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Rachael Ratcliffe
8/25/2010 07:41:13 am
There are many things in society today that make it a struggle to fulfull a full Christian life. Today for instance it is ok to induldge temptation. Many people think that the temptations are impossible to avoid. Also I think that people today have an extremely narrow mindset. Alot of people are only looking out for them selves which makes it hard (obviously) to care about the good will of others. They are usually too caught up in trying to advance themselves they forget what great things they have and forget that there are people who have less than them and could use there help. These examples are both socially acceptable making it hard to live a full Christian life.
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Sara D
8/25/2010 08:19:56 am
Many things hinder us from living out the Christian call to fullness of life. The obvious things such as giving into peer pressure and temptation are everywhere. I feel like "fullness of life" comes with a lot of things, though. Taking time to thank God for the day, living as though it was your last day on earth, lending a helping hand, smiling, prayer, living spontaneously..these are all things that people take for granted. They are challenges we may not even notice that keep up from the fullness of life.
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Ryan Cochran
8/25/2010 09:04:05 am
There are many many different challenges to the Christian call to a fullness of life. We all have to deal with life and in life there is sin and temptations but most of all we have to find ways for ourselves to cope with all this which is the biggest challenge of all. There is also the challenge of when a tragedy happens in your life you must cope, i know for myself when my father lost his job in may of 2009 i was devastated, it was something that it me pretty hard but it also hit my family pretty hard. and i can tell you that a big challenge for me was that i questioned my faith. I seriously was having trouble with the hardship but i know that there will be many more and difficult challenges throughout life. So yes there are challenges but we can work through them.
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Chelsea Buckman
8/25/2010 09:05:54 am
It is usually pretty difficult to fully live out the call to fullness of life as a Christian. Many times it is hard to find the time for God even when he is always finding time for us. We get so distracted by other things and our problems that we forget who can actually help us. Sometimes it's hard because it's not the cool thing to be the one who prays or whatever. I think that anyone who finds the time to just talk to God every now and then is making a great start. It helps me get through the day to remember no matter what I do, God will always be there. No matter how awful my day is, I try to look on the bright side of things because even though God loves us, he only gave us so much time together on earth. I know this is for the best though and not knowing what is to come keeps us living life to the fullest.
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carlos jordan
8/25/2010 09:21:22 am
There are many challenges to answering the Christian call to fullness of life. such as not caring or others impeding on ur attempts. if you dont care about the call then whjen the time comes you will dismiss it. if otheres want u to live a half faithed life then they will do as much as they can to distract you, like the media
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Shannon McFarland
8/25/2010 09:36:21 am
i think the two main challenges in fulfilling our christian lifestyle are lack of prayer as well as temptation. These two challenges go hand in hand. If we follow through with temptation, which more often then not we will do as humans and do not pray and ask for forgiveness from our God we are continuing down the path of sin. Where we go temptation will follow so it is up to us to try and resist. God does not want us to be perfect but by repenting for our sins we are one step closer to fulfillment of our christian life.
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Brian Jones
8/25/2010 10:02:51 am
There are many challenges to answering the Christian call to fullness of life. Some challenges are the media, social networking, and our peers. Sometimes the things that we think are the most important, really take away from our potential fullness of life. For example, spending large amounts of time on social networking sites can take away from the time we could be spending with our families, finishing up school work, or praying. We need to find the time in our lives to spend with God and the other important aspects of our lives. In this way we will be answering the call to fullness of life.
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Udhay Joshi
8/25/2010 10:55:33 am
In order to live in correspondence to the Christian fall to faithfulness one must avoid the temptation of the mortal sins and the vices. The vices are the easiest ways to achieve our goals, we're told as Satan tries to tempt us. These vices (anger, lust, greed, ect.) lead to the dire consequences of a mortal sin typically, which detracts from our ability to engage in a faithful Christian life.
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Nikki Sarkisian
8/25/2010 11:08:17 am
There are many challenges to answer the Christian call to fullness of life. The sin and temptation we must deal with everyday, no matter where we go, are always trying to pull us away form this calling. It is hard for us not to be drawn into this temptation though, because it is fashioned in a way that seems fun and enjoyable to us. We must overcome these sins and temptations, and see the big picture of why we are here on earth. To fulfill God's deeds so that we will have eternal life in heaven.
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Michelle Hren
8/25/2010 11:35:03 am
Answering the call to the Christian fullness of life is difficult because there are so many other choices can make that are easier than following what God wants us to do. It's always easier to sleep in on a Sunday morning than going to church, and it's easier to go through daily life without stopping to pray and give thanks to God. But, God also calls us to do more than just what is easy and to give Him a portion of our time because by doing so we can see what is really important in our lives and not always focus on whats more popular or easy.
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Luke Southard
8/25/2010 11:38:12 pm
There are all sorts of things that prevent us from lingo a good Christian life. Theres peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, media and many more sinful things. Living a good Christian life with all of these temptations is difficult but not impossible. You must be true to yourself and avoid temptations.
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Nick Miltner
8/26/2010 02:18:10 am
The challenges we face as Christians are all in our mind. We face peer pressure from all different things and people. The media, friends, family, school. The list goes on and on. We need to find ourselves and not let others find it for us. The responsibility of being a Christian are our own for us to accept. Many of us Christians can and eventually will overcome the challenges of being a good Catholic and succeed to living a life that God wanted us to have.
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Courtney Y
8/26/2010 05:30:16 am
I think the challenges of being a Christian are the people you surround yourself with more than anything; with temptation and peer pressure pulling us Christians away form God and living up to the commandments, but even with temptation and pressure to do wrong if your a strong individual full of faith you will be able to get through the temptation and continue to utlimately follow God. Everyone makes mistakes and nobody is perfect but God sees you even when your trying.
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Olivia Armand
8/26/2010 05:51:12 am
There are many challenges that come in our way of answering the Christian call to fullness of life. As human beings it is only natural to be subject to the many temptations we face on a regular basis. These sort of things can get in our way and pull us off the track of following the Christian call. We have to stay focused and try our best to do what's right in order to succeed in life, and be genuinely happy beings.
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John MacKenzie
8/26/2010 06:27:22 am
There are a lot of challenges answering the Christian call to fullness of life. The main one for me would be Mass. My family goes every week and it means that a lot of times I can't work during certain hours or I can't go out with my friends at certain times. It also gives alot of pressure to always be doing the right thing. It's easier to do the wrong thing than the right and sometimes you just want to give in. It's just important to remeber who I am and what my faith means to me when these challenges happen. As long as someone does what they can to live a Christian life is great. God isn't here to judge us and knows we'll mess up.
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Ryan Lund
8/26/2010 06:31:04 am
There are many challenges that come in our way when trying to answer the Christian call to fullness of life. We are at the age where you have to make big choices. There are many temptations you face and there are also a lot of distractions. A way for me to get away from these challenges are going to mass, and growing closer to God hoping he will help with them.
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Annie Stuart
8/26/2010 07:14:42 am
Answering the Christian call to fullness of life has many difficulties. The obstacles which must be overcome are plentiful. Every teenager faces challenges and temptations in their daily lives. The most difficult aspect of these challenges is being able to overcome them when your friends or the majority of your peers are not able to.
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Zack Driscoll
8/26/2010 07:26:31 am
I don't know what challenges Christians have because I usually just do what I want without worrying about moral decisions or what's Christian. We only live once and I'd rather not spend it being afriad of a god that may or may not exist, if there is a god great but odds are against Christians being the correct religion so I'd feel really stupid being told by alah that Christianity is wrong and I spent my whole life not living it up because that's what I thought my god wanted. And that's not influenced by other peoples ideas because 80 percent of the influence I get in my life is heavily Christian.
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Bianca Misiti
8/26/2010 08:00:11 am
At times it is hard to answer the Christian call to fullness of life. So many things distract us and tempt us everyday especially what we hear on a daily basis. The views and opinions of those around us are so influential, and in today's society everyone tries to follow the crowd and be "cool." As I have grown older I have noticed that people become "too cool" for God and faith in general. People who pray are seen as strange, and I think thats horribly wrong. I pray everyday and I don't know where I would be without God in my life. My life definately would not be complete without God, and I encourage my friends to be true to themselves and their faith no matter what others think. I do my best to answer the Christian call to fullness of life without getting caught up in the corrupt world around me.
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Dan Leahy
8/26/2010 08:02:18 am
It's hard sometimes to be a Christian because Christian values often conflict with societal values and my ow personal values. Sometimes, it's also hard to carry out what we're called to do even when it is a part of my own values. For example, when I'm angry at someone, it's hard to answer Jesus' call to love that person and treat them like a brother (or sister). It's just human nature to want to get even with someone who has wronged you. And I think that that is what makes being a Christian so difficult. It is hard because we are called to fight against our human nature.
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Joe Pona
8/26/2010 08:08:30 am
One of the biggest challenges to answering the Christian call to fullness of life is stress. In the age that we live in, people's lives, especially teenagers, seem to be filled with stress. Many teens experience stress from school, work, or peer pressure. When we are constantly worrying about how to get through the next day, we are not living life to the fullest. Instead, we must slow ourselves down and calm down. We must focus on the present not on the future or the past, just live each day as it passes by.
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Allison Pschirer
8/26/2010 08:27:18 am
I think that one of the biggest challenges of living our Christian life to the fullest is probably making bad choices and the temptations we face everyday. Everyday we have to make choices that affect our lives and how we live as a Christian. Especially at our age it may be hard for some people to do the rght thing and do what God what like us to do as a Christian.
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Shelby Heppner
8/26/2010 08:50:29 am
There are many obstacles that prevent people from living their christian lives to the fulest. Temptation is deffinatly one exspecially in todays society with all the oportunities and the easy accesability to sin. In teen mostly their is even the peer preasure aspect as going to church, being in yout groups, and outher involment in your church isnt always the coolest thing to be involved in or to be doing.
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Eric Weber
8/26/2010 08:51:55 am
I think a better question would be what arent the challenges of answering the christian call. In today's society, it has gotten to the point where almost everything we see and hear leads us astray fromt the path of God. It has become a near impossible task to stay true to God's call, and it takes a real person with will power and purpose to avoid the many temptations in life and follow God's call.
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Erin Vanek
8/26/2010 09:28:07 am
Our society is so fast-paced and oriented around getting information NOW that we never take the opportunity to relax and talk to God. Every day we are inundated with temptations and distractions that lead us away from God's path, and on top of that we have to discover our talents and gifts, and then figure out what to do with them. The difficulty there is, how do you use your gifts and talents in a way that fulfills God's plan for you, rather than just using them for your own pleasure.
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Colleen Ziemba
8/26/2010 09:30:53 am
In today's world, there are many distractions that keep us, as teenagers, from the Christian call of fullness of life. We are influenced by our parents, friends, siblings, and peers. We are tempted everyday to do the wrong thing, especially if it is the easier way to do something. For example, instead of spending time to do our homework, we can copy our classmates', which is a lot easier and quicker to do, a 'convenience' in this quick-paced world.
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Bob Noll
8/26/2010 10:05:51 am
The challenges to answering the fullness of Christian life are all around us. There are so many temptations to lead us astray from this path that it seems pretty much impossible to stick to it. Young people today have so much pressure on them to conform to society and do things that other people want even if that may not be the right decision. The call to the Christian way to life may not seem as easy as other paths in life, therefore making it a less attractive choice to some people.
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Jenna Melvin
8/26/2010 10:21:51 am
There are counless challenges that each of us face when answering the Christian call to fullness of life. Temptations surround every day in so many forms. Not only are we tempted, but there is pressure to give in that comes from our peers or from society in general. Human ambition can also stand in our way. We all want to work to be the best and most accomplished people we can be. We can become so focused on ourselves at times that we forget about our brothers and sisters around us. Sometimes we become slaves to our ambitions and let them take priority in our lives instead of God. It is easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of society and lose focus of becoming the people our faith is really calling us to become. Although it may seem difficult at times, we need to step back and put God in the center of our lives. We need to remember that everything we do- every word we speak and every action we take- should be a prayer that glorifies God.
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Anthony Giovinale
8/26/2010 10:30:59 am
There are many challenges that we face in everyday life. Some of the biggest challenges that we face for fulfulling the fullness of life is sin, the media, and negative role models. Sin is one of the biggest ones because everyday a person will commit one sin no matter how big or small it is. The media can divert our attention from fulfilling everyday life by filling our minds with useless and false information. Negative role models can make us commit bad decisions. We can all follow the call God has given us though and block out the negative things from our lives.
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Andrew "That Dude" Evans
8/26/2010 10:32:16 am
Following Christianity everyday to gain fullness of life is challenging for the average teenager. However; I see my self not as an average teenager but as an above average teenager who is very well in mind of his religion. I dont find it hard to do the right things and I dont find it hard to avoid sin. Although I do recognize sin is everywhere you just have to be tough enough to avoid it. I go to church every week and I pray almost everyday multiple times. That strengthens my relationship with God which ultimately strengthens my own self.
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jordan lambert
8/26/2010 10:50:54 am
there are many challenges to gaining the fullness of life. there are so many temptations in our daily lives. i think one of the biggest challenges is getting up early on Sunday morning to go to church. i find myself never wanting to get up for church. its a simple thing but its gets in the way of getting closer to God.
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Kristen Somrak
8/26/2010 11:14:42 am
There are many challenges to answering the Christian call to fullness of life. First we are a challenge. We make our own decisions and we must try to the best of our ability to avoid sin and temptation. We are the only ones to make us answer the call to fullness of life so it is up to us to make the best decisions for our lives. We must avoid sin and temptations put out by the media, our friends and peers.
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Erin Macuga
8/26/2010 11:16:21 am
There are many challenges that we face when it comes to answering the Christian call to fullness of life. We have to be able to overcome the challenges of temptation and sin in order to answer God's call. When we make a decision to give in to a temptation because it is the easy way out, we are giving into sin. Various temptations include cheating, lying, stealing, or giving in to peer pressure in order to show that you fit in with the crowd. Each person has free will, and we use this free will when we stay away from the temptations that are constantly surrounding us and answer God's call to fullness of life.
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Nick Olivier
8/26/2010 11:20:31 am
There are many challenges we face answering the Christian call to fullness of life. We have to avoid sin and temptations to do bad things. We are always facing pressure to stuff by our friends and it is hard to turn them down if everyone else is doing it. But you have to try as hard as you can not to give into peer pressure when you know whatever it is they want you to is the wrong thing to do. It is also a chaalege to go to church each week, especially if you stay out on saturday night. We all have to make time for God in our lives and it can be very difficult to balance school work, jobs, friends and still have time go to church and pray to God.
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Lindsey O'Brien
8/26/2010 11:26:13 am
the main challenge that everyone faces when called to the christian way of life is everyday temptations. they are everywhere, especially due to the society of today. Today for teenagers, we are much more susceptable to these temptations since we are constantly linked into the media. And this causes it to be much easier to stray from the christian life.
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Jeannie Zarback
8/26/2010 11:32:38 am
There are many challenges we have to face and many obstacles we have to overcome when trying to anser the Christian call to fullness of life. I think the biggest and hardest obstacle is temptation. There are so many temptations that are forced upon you everyday but you have to be strong and stand your ground when you know that what you are being pressured to do, whether it be by a peer, friend, or the media, is wrong. You have to stand up for yourself and prove that you are who you are and you aren't going to do something just because someone wants you to or makes you think they won't be your friend or won't think you're cool if you don't.
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natalie sharaba
8/26/2010 11:35:02 am
Mainly, the worst challenge is sin, and the temptation too sin. Deep down we know right from wrong, but its the joy of "living life" and having fun while you still can that sticks in the back of our minds. Living life for today,as best as you can is truly what most people would like to live by, especially teens. You are only young once, however it gets tricky when deciding between right and wrong.
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AJ Domozick
8/26/2010 11:38:06 am
There are many challenges to answering the Christian call to fullness of life. We experience these challenges every day of our lives. Temptations can lead us in the wrong direction if we choose to act on them. We must be able to overcome the temptation to sin and wrong ourselves. We must follow our christian morals and remember that acting on temptations will only hurt ourselves.
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Amy Carr
8/26/2010 11:41:10 am
There are many challenges to answering the christian call to fufillness in life. There are many times when people can decide to follow into negative peer pressure and negative behaviors. Many times we never think about doing something how God would like us to or doing something because we have a feeling it is God's plan for us. We should take more time tryng to listen and get guidence from God through prayer, to help us be the best people we can be and help us fufill our calling to christian like behavior in life. We need his help to focus more on other's then focus more on drugs, alcohol, violence, ect.
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Jeni Stovicek
8/26/2010 11:44:11 am
The main challenge that we all face every day is temptation. Temptation to do illegal or immoral activities. By participating in these activities it causes you to lose sight of whats really important, and you stray from your calling to fullness of life. By resisting temptation and sin, you mature and also grow spiritually.
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Alex Naticchia
8/26/2010 11:46:28 am
To answer the Christian call to fullness in life, we must do our best to avoid our greatest challenge: temptation. Temptation is everywhere. Temptation to act out, temptation to drink, to have sex, to get in trouble. It is all over the place and is encouraged by the media. Our friends only make it worse. It is a lot harder to say no to something you know is bad if all your friends are doing it. It is just a test of strength and faith, and we must do our best to turn down the temptation.
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Jess Strums
8/26/2010 11:50:08 am
Fulfilling a good christian life can be very difficult! Especially at this age, we are faced with many hard decisions that can shape the person we become. Throughout highschool and college years, we are faced with peer pressure more than ever. During these years in our lives, its important that we pray a lot more often and ask God to guide us on the right path. The decisions that we make affect the kind of christian we are. As christians we should make sure we attend mass every weekend and and make decisions that will help us get to heaven, because after all, getting to heaven is what matters the most.
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Mike jelenic
8/26/2010 12:05:12 pm
There are many challenges to answering the Christian call to fullness of life. One of these challenges is temptation. Especially in high school, we are faced with temptation each and every day. Whether its coming from our friends, people at school, or in the media, we are always tempted to do things that may seem cool but are not always good.
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Lisa Sahlani
8/26/2010 12:29:07 pm
Images, people, and certain temptations challenge the christian call to fullness of life everyday. The right thing to do isnt always the coolest thing to do, making the call put on hold for many christians. Peer pressure and other temptations make the right thing to do blurred behind what is the cool thing to do. It is very hard to go against the crowd and do the right thing. But, to answer this call to a christian full life, we must put our tempations aside and really focus on the beauty in life, and see God's greatness in the little things. With our focus on the right target, we can answer this seemingly difficult call with ease.
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Melissa Cyrus
8/26/2010 12:48:38 pm
There are many challenges when trying to live a good Christian life. Everyone is tempted to commit sin(s) on a daily basis. How we choose to respond to those temptations can sometimes be a major challenge in itself.
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Zach Brazofsky
8/26/2010 12:50:27 pm
We are constantly faced with obstacles standing in our way of answering the Christian call to fullness of life. Temptation is always pressuring us to do what we may either want to do or what others are doing, but is ultimately wrong. Answering the Christian call requires a great deal of strength and integrity. With prayer and learning from God's teachings, we may be able to overcome the temptations of our everyday world and become a better person.
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Marie Difranco
8/26/2010 12:52:24 pm
the average teenager wakes up goes to schhol goes to work come home and starts hours worth of homework then does it all over again. with all this happening its hard to even make time to even think about the concept of god let alone live a life of SINCERE faithfulness. in the end the only thing stopping me from answering the christian call to fullness of life isnt sin or temptation or any of that, its the simple struggle to find that unwavering faith to give me a reason to make the right decisions.
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Korrie Gundling
8/26/2010 12:59:46 pm
The challenges of answering the christian call to the fullness of life are many difficulties that we face daily. As a teenager we are asked to do so many things. Everyone is faced with the temptation of sin also and sometimes we fall for the sin which leads us away from reaching our goal of going to heaven. We need to find ways to focus on our goal and to not let in to temptations which can be very hard. The difficulties we face are distractions and we need to follow God's plan. God is looking out for us in everything we do and is helping us to make the right decisions. We just need to listen to what we know is right.
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Christopher Kent
8/26/2010 01:16:33 pm
Simply put, the challenge that holds us back as Christians from the fullness of life is sin. There are different categories one can put sin into such as temptation, stealing, cheating, etc. but in the long run sin is sin. Sinning puts us off the path to the good life and off the path to God. Sin or the option to sin surrounds us daily which is why it is a challenge for all of us not to sin.
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Colleen Poe
8/26/2010 02:09:19 pm
There are many challenges that make it hard to lead a Christian lifestyle, and I think the most prominent are troubles we face with friends and family. Most people have some story or tragedy that have deeply affected them, but some are so influential that they lead us to resent Christianity. It is at these points in our lives that we wonder what the benefit of living a Christian life are. We are blinded by our problems, and don't realize that the benefits are obvious.
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Cody stipcic
8/26/2010 03:29:15 pm
There are so many challenges that face us, selfishness because you dont always put God firsy in the picture, stress because stuff happens, we get stressed and dont always turn to God or our faith gets put on the backburner. It is difficult to live it out sometimes because of all these challenges. However, with enough work and faith anything can be accomplished like living in God's image.
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Duncan Campbell
8/26/2010 08:11:20 pm
There are many things that block a Christian from the call to the fullness of life. One thing is that there are many other temptations to do something sinful than there ever was. Another one is that many Christians now lead very bust lives and do not make time in order to live the fullness of Christian life.
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Liv Forte
8/26/2010 08:39:50 pm
Today, there are many distractions that keep us from following the Christian call of life. As teenagers we face peer pressure, sinful acts, and temptation. We are so caught up our way of life that we rarely turn to God for guidance. To break through these challenges we really need to open ourselves up to God. Let him into our lives and help us make crucial decisions, because he knows whats best for us.
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Kristin Steiger
8/26/2010 09:18:56 pm
I think the most difficult part of answering that call would be the difference between what society accepts and what Christians' accept. All the different temptations we are faced with each day seem like a normal part of society and in our desire to be accepted into society we counteract our desire to also be a good Christian.
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Ryan Fogarty
8/26/2010 09:30:23 pm
I believe the most difficult part of awnsering the Christian call is that we as people are only human and we can get destracted and tempeted. We should never ever put any priority above God but we do. This is only because we are human and God knows that all of us are not perfect. We also have temptations in our lives but we need to put God's intrests above our own sometimes.
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Paul Melaragno
8/27/2010 01:08:06 am
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Andrea Badertscher
8/27/2010 08:19:01 am
I myself would not know some challenges to living a Christian life because I am not a devote Christian, in a sense that I do not go to church often, I rarely go to confession, and I don't pray all that often. So for someone like me the biggest challenge is not letting peoples judgment of you make you think that you are a bad Christian. I believe I am living a full life as a Christian and I think thats all that matters.
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Cody Cseplo
8/27/2010 02:18:15 pm
I believe the biggest challenge to answering the Christian call to life is temptation. Temptation takes so many form. From procrastinating to peer pressure, they all make us live our lives differently. We act in all sorts of different ways to try to fit in, but in reality God wants us to consistent.
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Cu
8/28/2010 01:42:00 am
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Belak
8/28/2010 08:29:58 am
To fulfill a Christian lifestyle, one is expected to be positive, forgiving, praiseful, and grateful for everything. However, one can be drawn away from that lifestyle by the temptation of sin in everyday life. The media tends to glorify vices and sinful behaviors. So, when we see these things as the "better" way to live, a truly Christain lifestyle gets blocked by the environment around us.
There are so many challenges in answering the Christian call to fullness in life, especially for teens. There are so many choices and so many challenges, knowing what God would want us to do is sometimes the hardest thing to figure out. The world we live in makes it so hard for us to stay on track and truely stay close to God. Avoiding temptation, doing the right thing, taking the high road, learning from our mistakes and making time for God, are just a few of the many challenges that teens face. We all know that God wants the best for us and that when we do fail time and time again in the challenges we face, God is still there for us at the end of the day; I believe no matter what challenges you face whatever happens if you give in and give up, God will forgive and you can always start over in your Christian call to fullness in your life.
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Shane Suppo
8/29/2010 12:18:10 am
The main challenge to answering God's call to a christian life is practicing the faith. In today's world, it's extremely easy for people (especially politicians and teenagers) to proclaim they are of a religious faith, and then completely ignore all of the faith's guidelines. It is this basic challenge that leads to other challenges such as having faith, helping the sick and poor, and spreading the word.
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Alli Lepri
8/29/2010 12:49:53 am
I feel that the main challenge to the call to a christian fullness of life is temptation. Temptation plays a huge role in many teenagers today. It's because of these wrong tempations that cause us to stray away from the christian way of life. We may not want to do certain things but we do them anyways because "everyone else is doing it". At the time, it may not seem like a big deal but if you do the same thing over and over again it can turn into a routine. A routine that can turn you farther away from the christian fullness of life.
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Nicole Grover
8/29/2010 05:15:13 am
There are many challenges of answering the Christian call to fullness of life. Some are the temptations we have in front of us and others are distractions. These temptations and distractions can lead us away from God and into the wrong direction.
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Katy Hanratty
8/29/2010 06:00:23 am
The challenges of answering the Christian call to fullness of life are peer pressure, being a teenager and making the right judgments. I think that there is a lot of pressure on high school kids to just fit and by trying to fit in sometimes you make wrong choices just because you want to fit in so badly. I think a way to fix this problem is by finding God and praying.
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Dan Cirillo
8/29/2010 08:05:41 am
There are many challenges of answering the christian call to be fullness of life. I believe the hardest part is the temptations you have when you are a teenager. There are going to be people out who want you to do this and do that. You just have to ask yourself what would Jesus do or what do you think your parents would want you to do. To find your way through this mess is to go to mass and to say a prayer every night.
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Mark Kusa
8/29/2010 08:29:59 am
I think the hardest challaenges are the peers and the peer pressure of doing things that you go against. And it"s living everyday with those temptations being brought up everyuday to challenge you and they try to make you mess up and go against waht you believe in.
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Alex Kneier
8/29/2010 09:46:18 am
It is sometimes hard to be a Christian in the modern day world because it is not always easy to do the right thing. We might be sidetracked by the devil and his crazy antics........ For example it might be easier to push someone down than stand up for them.
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Nick Wanner
8/29/2010 09:59:21 am
The challenges of answering the Christian call to fullness of life are around us everyday. We face temptations and opportunities to go against God's will each day. We face the temptations of sin that others around us and we ourselves create. In order to answer the Christian call to fullness of life we must avoid the temptations of sin, and live the life God calls us to live.
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Annie Profeta
8/29/2010 10:16:04 am
There are many things that make it difficult for the call of fullness of life. One of those things is outside temptations and distractions. Sometimes people don't do what they think is right because maybe it's not "cool". Some things that are considered cool are sinful and immoral, and these things make it difficult to fulfill our call. Beacause of outside distractions we lose concentration on what we are really reaching for.
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Phil GItt
8/29/2010 10:41:51 am
I feel that the challenge to living is Christian filled life is that we often have things come up in our lives which seem to us to be more important like the media. also, living a Christian filled life requires us to forgive one another and that can be hard for us to do depending on the situation. But we need to open our lives more to god and forget about those negative things that bring us down.
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T.J. Demshar
8/29/2010 10:42:08 am
The call of fullness of life is becoming harder to fullfill because of temptaions and distractions from God's path. People lose sight of what is good, and right for what is fun, and stupid. Because of these temptations, we are unable to answer the call of fullness of life.
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Megan Schauer
8/29/2010 11:42:24 am
There are many challenges of answering the Christian call to fullness of life. One is if your friends are doing something that is completely wrong and you know that its wrong but since everyone else is doing it you decide to do it anyways no matter what the consequences are. Another one is that people feel the need to fit in so they will go against their religion just to be cool or popular.
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Mike Stacho
8/29/2010 12:08:39 pm
I guess people these days don't put their faith as the most important thing in their life anymore. People would rather go hang out with friends, get school work done, go to work, and relax when they can. When Sunday rolls around most students are busy finishing up homework for the week and doing some last minute relaxing until the school week starts. Any student would rather hang out with friends than go to Church, even if it's just for an hour, it's just the way we are these days. It's something that i personally look to improve on.
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Clare Wenzel
8/29/2010 12:23:53 pm
i think teenagers are faced with the most distractions from living our faith. There I personally still struggle with my faith even something as simple as going to mass on Sunday because im so busy. and that happens for many other teenagers as well. Another thing that can potentially distract someone from living out their Christian values are how Christians are looked upon. Being a Christian is not consierdered the coolest thing in todays society; and now a days everyone wants to fit in. you rarely see a student flaunting how they are Catholic or Christian at school. Its just something you dont see anymnore unfortunately
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Stephanie Albert
8/29/2010 12:25:59 pm
The challenges of living in the modern world and answering to the call of christian faith is that society pulls you in every direction. It is difficult to listen to what you believe and keeping your morals while everyone else is telling you what is "cool". Also, people seem to be too 'busy' to really commit their time to their faith. So, a major challenge for modern day is to really stay true to your faith and make time for it in your everyday life.
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Dani (the one and only) Ramos
8/29/2010 12:36:56 pm
There are many challenges of answering the Christian call to fullness of life because of temptation and sin. The world is full of evil and hatred that draws us as people in. Something about or human nature is prone to being disobedient.
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Ricardo Mason
8/29/2010 12:38:52 pm
In our life today there are many different variables that can cause a person to stray away from a good christian life. Most which can be from temptation and sin. Both of these factors mostly arise in your everyday life with peer pressure and your friendship with people and the media
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John Schnee
8/29/2010 12:43:08 pm
I think the biggest challenge is how society has evil standards. It is very common for society's views to be on the opposite end of the spectrum than those of the Catholic Church. Every person wants to feel loved or excepted, and to accomplish this, they are tempted to conform with society's standards. This leaves an individual actually feeling empty inside.
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John Schnee
8/29/2010 12:46:34 pm
I feel the biggest challenge is society's standards. These standards are often evil and on the opposite end of the spectrum of those of the Catholic Church. Because each person wants to fit in with the group, feel loved, and excepted, they may choose to conform with society's standards. This will leave the individual feeling empty.
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Chasticals
8/29/2010 12:54:49 pm
There are many challenges to answering the Christian call to fullness of life. These challenges include sins, temptations, and just about everything we do throughout the day. The more important thing is staying away from these acts. If we stay away from these acts then we can live a wonderful cChristian life. However, if we fall into peer pressure, this call to life seems to appear a whole lot harder than it has to be.
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Austin Furgerson
8/29/2010 09:17:29 pm
Challenges to answering the Christian call to fullness of life are all around us. Everyday we have to make decisions that are usually either good or bad. We can choose the right decision but it may be harder than choosing the wrong one. Sometimes it's easier to just pick the wrong thing like cheating because you didn't do you homework because you don't want to deal with the consequences. We have to make sure we stand strong and always do the Christian thing.
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Joe Mirabile
8/29/2010 10:42:58 pm
There are many reaosnt that can effect this. Temptaions of what friends tell you, and peer presure can really effect this. Also distractions from school and home life can block you sometimes from being a Christian leader. i believe stress has a big effect in this also.
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Jen LeGros
8/29/2010 11:20:42 pm
There are many challenges to answering the call of fulfillness of life. Temptation and living up to the Catholic church's standard of living I believe are some challenges teens face. Temptation and peer pressure really can affect a teen's actions and choices. I believe the pressure from the Catholic church to be the best person you can be can also be a factor of stress in a teen's life and can affect their life choices as well.
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John hanahan
8/29/2010 11:40:53 pm
In my opinion one of the major challenges that Christians need to overcome is realizing that what we want for ourselves is not always what we want but what God has planned for us.
John hanahan
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kat kress
8/30/2010 01:13:07 am
being at a Catholic school, they always tell us to live up to the church teachings. but in the same sentence they tell us to be ourselves and to live our life to the fullest. one thing that teens have a hard time facing is to live our lives to the fullest while still staying with the church teachings.
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Alex Prosser
8/30/2010 06:15:12 am
The Catholic religion is very strict in a lot of ways. What our religion says and what society says are two different things. Its very hard for a teenager to meet up to the churchs standards because we want to do the better and more fun things right now in life. Its just another stress factor for us but ultimately we live our life the way we want.
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Allison Griesmer
8/30/2010 11:45:59 am
Probably the biggest challenge we have to face as humans is the idea of right vs. wrong. Yes, we can decided what is the right thing to do, but sometimes the wrong thing to do is actually more fun. This constant struggle between deciding between the right thing and the fun thing leads numerous people to stray away from our faith and into a life full of temptation.
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Kevin Gebura
8/31/2010 11:39:27 am
As far as direction will take you there are signs to brake for a stop. A moment of reflection, you may be passing the limit. To handle each mirror in your view, there are spots that will be unseen. The challenge happens to force under rule. To keep in the lines, and color the shapes of your own taste, belong with your safety. These are the warnings that generations have set forth for progress.
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Paul Melaragno
8/31/2010 12:02:52 pm
Growing up in this day and age, we have the most challenges and distractions out of any previous generation. But one main one is lazyness, your parents are going to church and its sunday morning.. Your day off, and u had a long week. Or being to lazy to give thanks to god, and pray consistantly. But when something goes bad, you need him and you pray.
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Jamey McGinis
8/31/2010 01:35:03 pm
Living to the Christian fullness of life has many challenges. These challenges are all around us. We always want instant gratification and if events in our life happen where we do not get what we want right away, we begin to think "If you really existed, you would have given me what i wanted." We challenge our own faith, our Christian faith, and if we challenge our faith then we cannot live up to its own fullness of life.
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Madeline Gordon
8/31/2010 10:40:00 pm
The challenges to living to the Christian fullness of life are feelings of hatred and anger, temptation, and other sinful actions. As humans, we let our emotions get the best of us and can sometimes act out in anger towards others. This can result in hurting them and harming our Christian fullness of life. Temptation is the biggest factor in the way of living a Christian life because it is surrounding us at all times. Especially as teenagers we are faced for the first times in our lives with drugs and alcohol and the temptation to engage in both. We must try to refrain from these temptations and sins in order to live the Christian fullness of life.
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christina martinis
9/1/2010 12:33:18 pm
the challenges to living the christian fullness of life are temptations. as teenagers today we have temptations all around us. there are sinful acts, peer pressure from friends and parents.and to life a christian life we have to overcome these temptations and listen to ourselves.
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Mary McDonnell
9/6/2010 02:21:36 pm
There are a lot of challenges. but i believe that the biggest challenge is peer pressure. When we want to pray to god and follow in his footstepts, i believe it is hard when you have people that act all cool like and think that praying is for losers and that it's a weird thing for a person to it. Luckily, This school has provided me with peers who are as religious as me, and that respect others for their religious backgrounds.