Hi everyone it's Leslie Ludi host of the Set-A-Part Girl Podcast, biblical encouragement for women of all ages. Today's episode is about the top issues that today's young women are facing and the

biblical answers they need for those issues.

If you are like me and you have a burden and a desire to reach today's young women for Christ,

it's so important to understand the issues that they're facing and be prepared with the

biblical answers that they desperately need to hear. So to preface this I want to

offer some encouragement about the most effective way to communicate to the young women in your life.

I remember when I was about 17 years old I had made a decision to not date around

and to let God write my love story and I was very passionate about this new

understanding of God's pattern for relationships and somebody one of my friends

asked me casually one day why are you not dating around and I saw

it as my golden opportunity and I launched into a 15 minute fiery passionate lecture

about all the evils and dangers of shallow flings and you know whipped out all these

Bible verses and instead of just humbly sharing what God had done in this area of

my life and sharing the choices that I had made and why I had made them, I turn it into this

preaching opportunity and my friend just kind of looked at me weirdly and made an excuse to

leave. It was not effective at all. It brought me back to that famous quote that says preach Christ

at all times and if necessary use words. It's not that my words were bad but it

can't just be the truth that we're speaking it has to be spoken in the

nature and attitude of Jesus Christ with love with humility it's not just

about having all the right scriptural answers that makes you effective when you're sharing with young women,

but humbly sharing how these Jews have personally changed your own life that will make you the most effective in speaking into

someone's life. So as I became more mature in my understanding of how to

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