Sermon Starter

The Church can help prevent substance abuse by addressing teens--those at the breaking point between a life of addiction and a life of freedom. Most Americans will be offered drugs before they graduate from high school, but teens who attend religious services regularly are less likely to engage in substance abuse than teens who don't.

For this reason, the Church needs to take special interest in its youth--not simply by telling them to "say no to drugs," but by showing them that they are God's image-bearers and far too valuable to waste their lives by using drugs.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who
is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God
in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20