Creating an Environment that Enables Healthy Discussions with Students
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Every student minister wants to engage students in healthy conversation about life and faith. How do you do that where students will feel the freedom to share honestly? And, how can you, as a student minister participate in these discussions by humbly sharing the truth as you balance a variety of different options.
That is why Ben Kerns is back on the podcast. Recently Ben and I have been watching a lot of documentaries (“Behind the Curve” about Flat Earthers on Netflix and “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos on HBO and two primary ones). Out of those documentaries we discuss how you can have healthy discussions with students and the wide variety of opinions and truths that come out today.
How can you create those environments and what does it look like? Find out how.
ACTION STEPS:
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