All Teachers are fired!
Yesterday I attended an all day teacher's training to prepare for the Winter School of Truth this December. Well, naturally you would think that would involve lessons and discussions about how to teach the topic and how to handle different issues that young people have - there was a little bit of that. But the main point of it all was that the most important thing is that we have a heart for the young people.
The young people need friends and they need family. Also, we need to see them as new believers not as church kids. Just because they grow up in the church life does not mean that they are in the church life. They may fool you into thinking that they are OK because they know all the correct things to say, but really we need to take care of them like our gospel friends and new contacts. We need to be there friend and gain their trust.
This does not mean that we are worldly with them, but we need to be Jesusly-human. Jesus came to be man's savior but He came as a friend of sinners in order to be their savior. We need to take this way and be infused with Jesus' humanity.
It is very humbling. You can not just prepare some lesson. You have to prepare your being, your person.
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