Provisional Offerings, Kenda Creasy Dean and Justin Forbes – Video and Discussion Outline
Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean and Justin Forbes encourage youth ministers to accept their limitations as provisional offerings.
Questions for Discussion:
How does it feel to know that the youth don’t actually need us? How do we model that?
How does it feel to be called to the impossible, to offer something that we will inevitably fail at? What does God’s hospitality look like, and how might we point towards it?
What do “provisions” look like as we do this work of tending to the mental health of our youth? How are we experiencing that as an invitation?
What does it mean to tend to our own spirits as youth workers, all the while knowing that we will fail? What does that kind of leadership look like?