Introduction
Section 1: What Is Vocational Discernment, and What Does It Have to Do with Youth?
Section 2: Helping Youth Engage in Discernment
- Prepare – 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
- Stages of Discernment with Youth, David White – Video and Discussion Outline
- Filling the Void, Tim Walsh – Video and Discussion Outline
- Good Ideas/God Ideas, Bill Mathis – Video and Discussion Outline
- Vocation, Bill Mathis – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
Section 3: The Ongoing Nature of Vocational Discernment
- Prepare – Matthew 13:1-9
- Developing a Sense of Vocation, Caroline Ainsworth – Video and Discussion Outline
- Vocational Discernment, Andy Root – Video and Discussion Outline
- Vocation, Shane Claiborne – Video and Discussion Outline
- The Spiritual Journey of Young Adults, Steven Argue – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
Additional Resources
Further Reading
How to Help Teens Find Purpose, Patrick Cook-Deegan
You Should Think About Your Vocation…But Not Too Much, Christine Warner
Vocational Discernment, Seattle Pacific
White, David F. Practicing Discernment with Youth: A Transformative Youth Ministry Approach. (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2005). Chapter 3 “Reclaiming the Christian practice of discernment,” 63-88.
Damon, William. The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life. (Free Press, 2008).
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