Youth Leaders’ Crash Course podcast

Episode 1 - Understanding Youth Culture

Questions for youth team

• Where are your teens in terms of sexuality? What are the specific ideas they hold to?
• What’s the impact of these ideas on individuals, gay or straight?
• How might you begin to respond to the messages of our culture?
  
  

Episode 2 - Responding to Culture

Questions for youth team

• Which of the ideas raised in this episode do you find most challenging to teach on? Why?
• Which of these ideas is most relevant for/prevalent among the teens in your group?
• How can you begin to teach on these ideas?

Episode 3 - Teaching the Bible

Questions for youth team

• Do you have a good understanding of what the Bible says about sexuality? If not, what’s your next step in learning?
• How can you teach this in a way that doesn’t compromise on truth, but also extends grace and sensitivity to your various listeners?
• How would you answer the common questions raised in this episode? (Perhaps practice on each other!)

Episode 4 - Pastoral Support: The Wider Community

Questions for youth team

• What do we need to do to prepare ourselves as youth leaders?
• What do we need to do to prepare our youth group?
• How can we engage well with parents and carers?
• How can we engage well with our church leaders?

Episode 5 - Pastoral Support: Caring for SSA Teens

Questions for youth team

• Has there been a time when you have had to share something deeply personal with someone else? Were you uncertain or afraid about how they might respond? What about those experiences might help us to respond well to teens who come out to us?
• How have we responded to teens who have come out to us in the past? What can we learn from these experiences?
• How are we discipling our teens on an ongoing basis? What else could we do?

Episode 6 - Thinking About Transgender

Questions for youth team

• Do we have a good understanding of sex, gender and transgender? If not, what’s our next step in learning?
• Do we have a good understanding of what the Bible says about sex, gender and identity? If not, what’s our next step in learning?
• Are we a welcoming, safe environment for teens who are trans-identifying, who have questions about gender generally or their own specifically? How can we become more so?
• What practical conversations (e.g. around names, pronouns, bathrooms, sleeping spaces) do we need to have?

Episode 7 - LGBT+ Youth and Mental Health

Coming soon. (Apologies for the delay in releasing the episode.)