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Engaging the Teenage Culture: A Model Approach

Engaging the Teenage Culture: A Model Approach. Dr. William Brown President. The Worst Analogies Ever Written. The little boat drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t. . Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots at the center. .

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Engaging the Teenage Culture: A Model Approach

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  1. Engaging the Teenage Culture: A Model Approach Dr. William Brown President

  2. The Worst Analogies Ever Written The little boat drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots at the center. Her vocabulary, was as bad as, like, whatever. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

  3. The Worst Analogies Ever Written The politician was gone, but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can. The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

  4. Q: What is the greatest competition for the hearts and minds of today’s Christian youth? • A: Popular Culture & Entertainment Choices

  5. Q: What is the greatest frustration in what you do as a youth leader/teacher? • A: Helping students learn discernment in their entertainment choices

  6. What keeps you from mentoring your students in discernment? • I don’t know how to discern • It’s so hard to keep up with popular culture • I don’t have the time to research • I don’t want to be “cheesy” in front of the youth

  7. What would you like to see accomplished in the lives of your students? • To be informed about what’s popular. • To mentor the youth in making good choices. • To engage the youth so they talk about what’s influencing them.

  8. What would you like to see accomplished? • Give the student’s the knowledge and skills to discern. • To present an image as being culturally relevant.

  9. Elements of Worldview Thinking Explanation Focus: Biblical Instruction Goal: Think Biblically Interpretation Focus: Personal and Cultural Evaluation Goal: Discernment Application Focus: Personal Decision- making Goal: Christlikeness

  10. Examples of Worldview Teaching 1. Explore the distinctives of the Biblical worldview. Ask, “What if . . . “ 2. Explore the distinctives of other worldviews. Ask, “How would a ____ explain or interpret this?” 3. Ask: “Why?” about everything. 4. Collect worldview current events

  11. Examples of Worldview Teaching 5. “Enslave” yourself to everyone. Ask: “What are your favorite . . . songs/groups? Why? movies/celebrities? Why?” 6. So What? Ask: “What do these songs/movies/etc. tell us about ourselves? What is the underlying worldview? What values, actions, beliefs do they promote? How do these line up with a biblical view of life?”

  12. Engaging the Teenage Culture: A Model Approach Dr. William Brown President

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