In our book, Experiential Youth Ministry Handbook, on page 11, Losey asks two questions:
How do people learn and grow? and
How can we as leaders and teachers best help others in that process?
He goes on to say, "Too often, instead of living with the question, I would focus on finding a quick answer." ... "As my focus shifted to the questions themselves, my teaching and leading moved from a desire to inform to a passion to transform." So, now that I've rambled on and on about what the book says, my question is how would you, in your various forms of ministry, transform people instead of just informing? How can you help your "students" in the process of transforming?
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Focusing on Sabbath
In Dodgeball Theology on the chapter about Sabbath, Blair Spindle states that 'today's child has become the unwilling, unintended victim of overwhelming stress.' The generation in schools now has a very little idea about Sabbath or very little room in which they think they can spare time to do it. In your ministry, how would you help students partake in Sabbath and understand its purposes? (list of suggestions on pages 58-9)
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Shunting the "Average"
In our reading for this week the author talks about the philosophical thoughts on games. In this section he talks about how what used to be games a long time ago has now become professional sports in our society today. His example of this is lawn tennis in the 1905 compared to professional tennis now. He makes the point that when this happens only the extremely talented and athletic are asked to play and participate. He urges us to not allow this to happen in our youth ministry; so my question to you is this: What is a practical way that we can keep our games and activities from being over-run by the athletically gifted and shunting the "average" players to the side?
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Monday, February 9, 2015
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