http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/2008/06/29/5-dangerous-things-part-3/ Guiding Students Into Spiritual Formation for the Mission of God Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/2008/06/29/5-dangerous-things-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1644 Perigrinatio » discover truth for themselves (5dt-3) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:09:44 +0000 http://www.anewkindofyouthministry.com/2008/06/29/5-dangerous-things-part-3/#comment-1644 [...] Today Chris and I are going to look at the second dangerous thing… helping students discover truth for themselves. Often when I talk with youth workers about their goals for students - they will talk about grand schemes of what they would like kids to accomplish and know before leaving (graduating from) the youth ministry program. They will speak of things like knowledge of the flow of the Bible, about wanting students to know how to “feed themselves” from the Bible, about how to share and defend their faith, and the list goes on - it sounds great! When I push further in this discussion and ask how they are accomplishing this, often the response is some curriculum used on Sunday mornings or Sunday nights where the main delivery of the information is a lecture (okay sermon or message). [...] [...] Today Chris and I are going to look at the second dangerous thing… helping students discover truth for themselves. Often when I talk with youth workers about their goals for students – they will talk about grand schemes of what they would like kids to accomplish and know before leaving (graduating from) the youth ministry program. They will speak of things like knowledge of the flow of the Bible, about wanting students to know how to “feed themselves” from the Bible, about how to share and defend their faith, and the list goes on – it sounds great! When I push further in this discussion and ask how they are accomplishing this, often the response is some curriculum used on Sunday mornings or Sunday nights where the main delivery of the information is a lecture (okay sermon or message). [...]

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