Thanks for joining us for a new episode of Ask Paul Tripp.

Today's question comes from a high school student who read Wednesday's word titled

How to Ask Better Questions.

As you try to build intentional discipleship relationships, you need to know somebody, not just facts about them, but about their heart, and the best way to do that is by asking questions.

But this teenager has a problem.

I live in a small town, she says, and I don't have many friends my age.

My church is mostly elderly people or people my parents age.

I am so blessed to have a loving church family, but I have noticed that

Christ is not integrated into their everyday lives. I have a really hard time asking spiritual

questions, especially hard and deep questions with those in my church, because I feel as though

I'm not allowed to ask these due to my age. I often get brushed off or a short response. I don't want

to come across as disrespectful or as though I think of myself wiser than those who are older,

and I don't have much life experience, so I feel I can't ask certain questions that have to do

with life experiences that I haven't gone through yet, like marriage or parenting. How can I ask deep spiritual questions and have deep spiritual Christ-centered conversations

with those who are 30-plus years older than me?

How would I even start these conversations?

I would like people in my church to grow in their walk with the Lord,

and I know I have a lot of growing to do as well. Well, there's so many things that I want to say in their walk with the Lord, and I know I have a lot of growing to do as well.

Well, there's so many things that I want to say in this conversation, but I want to start this

way.

You have to accept your limits.

It's not an accident or some weird twist of fate that you happen to be younger than most of the

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