The new book that helps Christian teenagers navigate an uncertain world

Alex Parker highly recommends Worth it as a resource for teeenagers wanting to make sense of their faith today

Worth it is a superbly readable book for anyone who has ever wondered whether their Christian faith is really relevant and trustworthy in our complex and broken world.

Chris Morphew is clearly someone who understands teenagers and the situations and struggles they often face. Any teenager who sometimes feels that what they hear in church on a Sunday or at Youth Group is difficult to connect with their secular Monday to Saturday lives will find it helpful. And, indeed, so will their parents! If you’re spending most of your waking hours at work, school or online with other young people who, at least on the face of it, project confident, polished selves, appearing content and complete, then the Christian message can feel out of place if not even unkind. Chris’s observation that we can appear to be saying “here’s a problem you didn’t think you had – but don’t worry, here’s a solution you didn’t know you needed”, articulated exactly how I have frequently felt in my own workplace. What I believe I have in my relationship with Jesus just doesn’t seem to be relevant or needed by my colleagues, who are either getting on perfectly fine without him, or struggling with such difficult situations that adding something else to think about doesn’t seem quite the right thing to do. And so, Chris’s aim is to ……