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Introduction
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Section 1: What Is Vocational Discernment, and What Does It Have to Do with Youth?
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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
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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
Walking Alongside Youth, Almeda Wright – Video and Discussion Outline
Rev. Dr. Almeda Wright talks about how to walk alongside youth in their journey.
Questions for Discussion:
- What might it mean for our young people that God speaks, and helping youth explore what it might look like to listen to God through practices?
- What would it look like for our youth to name and claim the centrality of our faith?
- Do we believe that we all are called to something? What might it look like to foster this understanding with our youth? What opportunity might there be for mentoring here?
- What is the difference between a profession and a vocation? Is this splitting hairs, or is there more to this practice of wordsmithing?
- What is behind the question, “How are you living for God?” How might we adults answer that question?