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How to Engage the Bible with Youth
~14 Hours
In How to Engage the Bible With Youth, you will develop that ability through fresh insights and practical instructions for connecting the dots between students’ current lives and Scripture’s timeless stories. It should inspire relationship, journey, understanding, transformation, questioning, and provide eight ways to approach reading the Bible with students.
2 instructors
About This Course
Have you ever found yourself perplexed at how to lead young people to engage with Scripture? Have you ever felt overwhelmed by planning your next youth group lesson or answering the questions your students have about the Bible? Or, have you felt pressure to somehow "make" Scripture relevant for young people? You're not alone.
Thankfully, as youth leaders, our job is not to “make” God’s Word relevant for young people; God’s Word already is. Our job is to help that relevance shine forth.
In How to Engage the Bible With Youth, you will develop that ability through fresh insights and practical instructions for connecting the dots between students’ current lives and Scripture’s timeless stories. It should inspire relationship, journey, understanding, transformation, questioning, and provide eight ways to approach reading the Bible with students.
Created in partnership with the Fuller Youth Institute and FULLER Equip.
- Leadership
- Church & Ministry
1. Getting Started
Relationships and Realities
2. How Is Your Relationship with the Bible?
3. What Is the Bible Asking of Us?
4. Is the Bible as Physical as It Is Spiritual?
5. Are We Living the Best Kind of Life Today?
Questions and Doubts
6. Why Read the Bible as Story?
7. Creating the Environment
8. Is Jesus More Than the Answer?
9. Can We Struggle with God?
Talking and Listening
10. How Do We Communicate with God?
11. The Way Forward
Conclusion
12. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Matthew J. Laidlaw
MA, Pastor, Author
Matthew Laidlaw is a co-founder of Open Circle, an "inclusively-Christian" spiritual community in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is an ordained minister and has been serving in executive and administrative leadership while working in both school and church-based pastoral ministry for the past 15 years. Matthew is a graduate of Kuyper College, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, and the Living School for Action and Contemplation, and has lived and studied in the Middle East. Matthew and his wife Stephanie live in West Michigan with their two young children.
FYI
Center at Fuller Theological Seminary
The Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) turns research into practical resources to help make the church the best place for young people to grow. An innovative branch of Fuller Theological Seminary, FYI research has pioneered a new era of youth ministry practice and intergenerational discipleship, partnering with faculty from across various disciplines to create tools that change the way the world sees young people.
