... This adds up to excitement, particularly when coupled with freedom that has been newly acquired. The young adult is ready to sail away into adult life, without all the limitations, self - doubt and confusion of adolescence. Not that anxiety and fear are absent, but young adults have confidence unmatched by any other stage of life. This confidence feeds his activism. Young adults have a basic trust in themselves and their own capacities, even the most painful and greatest disappointments, they are typically able to pick themselves up, pull themselves together and prepared to try again. He quotes William Perry "young people attempt to test them. Values are not mere ideas, unrelated to life behaviour. Not worked out, they may not be unimportant but also wrong". ENCOURAGING IDEALISM First, the priceless idealism of young adulthood should be encouraged. It may be very costly for society and the church if it fails to ...

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