Youth Connection with Sterling Roberts
On this episode, Tim welcomes Sterling Roberts. Sterling serves as the Area Director for Young Life, Milwaukee, a youth evangelism and character and leadership development organization targeting middle school and high school students. Sterling has been involved with youth for the past 25 years.
Our youth are not just our future. They are also our now. How to communicate with them today? How to put in them the ability to do what they need to do to be productive citizens as they continue to grow and progress? What is the difference between Young Life ministry and youth ministry in churches? How Covid 19 impacted the ability to communicate with young people at the local Young Life Milwaukee level? How to get their attention when they are distracted by all of the technology today? Tim and Sterling share their experiences and thoughts on the subject, and give us some recommendations for better communication with others, especially with our youth.
Episode highlights:
07:30 – Young life camp is about ministry. It is fun. It is about caring for kids, caring for them as a person. It begins with a relationship.
16:00 – Christ is the One that changes the heart. The more they know Jesus and His love for them, and they fall in love with Him, God will begin to take away those things that are unlike Him. We depend on Holy Spirit. By the time you leave, you’ll know Jesus.
17: 55 – Honesty, listening, and vulnerability in communication with kids – those three things will never change.
22:28 – Technology made us arrogant in thinking that we can do a whole lot more and be a whole lot more than what we really can do or be, to the point that we do not see the need for God.
25:14 – The key to communicating with young people today is one-on-one individual time with them
– you got to get their attention to even want to listen to you. We cannot compete with everybody else.
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