Made to Make a Difference

I enjoyed reading You Were Made to Make a Difference, by Max Lucado and Jenna Lucado-Bishop. Though the book was written for a teenage audience, it can easily be applied to the lives of adults. While Max Lucado’s commentary and input is written in a more mature way that is more applicable to older readers, Jenna Lucado-Bishop’s commentary and input is appealing to a younger audience. Together, the two author’s created a work that can be inspirational to a varied group of readers.

As an adult who actively works in our church’s teen group, I read the book and thought about ways I could adapt the content and teach it in lessons. The book could be used to create lessons that address the entire heterogeneous group, or it could be taught in a small-group setting to a homogeneous group. Either way, both the teacher and the students will benefit from the information in the book. I loved how the book included stories of teenagers who truly had made a large, lasting difference in the lives of others. The examples prove that anyone is capable of making a change, and everyone was made to make a difference in the world.