Comments on: Orange 09: Preconference – College Ministry 101 http://childrensministryonline.com/fresh-ideas/orange-09-preconference-college-ministry-101/ Thu, 17 May 2012 14:24:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kenny http://childrensministryonline.com/fresh-ideas/orange-09-preconference-college-ministry-101/comment-page-1/#comment-1018 Kenny Thu, 14 May 2009 05:02:50 +0000 http://childrensministryonline.com/blog/?p=3293#comment-1018 Yes, you're right on. Chuck spent some time talking about this process of allowing college students to wrestle with questions of both faith and identity. He talks about asking open-ended questions without any leading at any time. My favorite was when he said he likes to get with a student and ask, "so, who are you?" The student my reply with, "Uh, I guess I'm a student and a pretty good guy." "So you're saying that in the core of who you are, you're just a good guy... that's it?" "Uh, I didn't know that's what you meant?" "What do you mean, you didn't know what I meant? I asked you who you were?" At that point he lets them squim, trying to explain things that they've never verbalized. What's the answer? Maybe "I'm a child of God. I'm his, created for his pleasure. I'm his emissary in this world." Would we ever tell a student what the answer is? Never. I love it. Yes, you’re right on. Chuck spent some time talking about this process of allowing college students to wrestle with questions of both faith and identity. He talks about asking open-ended questions without any leading at any time.

My favorite was when he said he likes to get with a student and ask, “so, who are you?”

The student my reply with, “Uh, I guess I’m a student and a pretty good guy.”

“So you’re saying that in the core of who you are, you’re just a good guy… that’s it?”

“Uh, I didn’t know that’s what you meant?”

“What do you mean, you didn’t know what I meant? I asked you who you were?”

At that point he lets them squim, trying to explain things that they’ve never verbalized. What’s the answer? Maybe “I’m a child of God. I’m his, created for his pleasure. I’m his emissary in this world.” Would we ever tell a student what the answer is? Never.

I love it.

]]> By: princessjes http://childrensministryonline.com/fresh-ideas/orange-09-preconference-college-ministry-101/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 princessjes Thu, 14 May 2009 04:12:26 +0000 http://childrensministryonline.com/blog/?p=3293#comment-1017 I love the idea... interesting perspective on not just doing a college "service". The more I discover the more I try to unlearn those things I've learned are the "right "way to do ministry! I happen to fall in this age bracket and though I'm not in school and actually part of leading a children's ministry myself, I still struggle with the questions of who am I created to be? I still have to find my voice in the rapids of life. I'm finding that the best way to minister is to live it & allow people to wrestle with faith questions. To allow people, especially peers, a safe place to bounce ideas, a safe place to be them & figure out WHO THEY are...not help them become what others think they should be. I'm blessed to have a place to be me, a friend who leads & loves me, a place to chill out and remember that I'm not expected to be everything to everyone and I'm not supposed to have all the answers! *refreshing* princessjes’s last blog post..<a href="http://princessjes.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/this-changes-everything/" rel="nofollow">THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!!</a> I love the idea… interesting perspective on not just doing a college “service”. The more I discover the more I try to unlearn those things I’ve learned are the “right “way to do ministry!
I happen to fall in this age bracket and though I’m not in school and actually part of leading a children’s ministry myself, I still struggle with the questions of who am I created to be? I still have to find my voice in the rapids of life. I’m finding that the best way to minister is to live it & allow people to wrestle with faith questions. To allow people, especially peers, a safe place to bounce ideas, a safe place to be them & figure out WHO THEY are…not help them become what others think they should be.
I’m blessed to have a place to be me, a friend who leads & loves me, a place to chill out and remember that I’m not expected to be everything to everyone and I’m not supposed to have all the answers!
*refreshing*

princessjes’s last blog post..THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!!

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