{"id":5633,"date":"2015-05-22T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5633"},"modified":"2015-05-22T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T19:30:49","slug":"lessons-i-tried-to-teach-you-without-teaching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5633","title":{"rendered":"Lessons I Tried to Teach You Without Teaching You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another graduation ceremony\u00a0is upon us. Young adults move from &#8220;young&#8221; to &#8220;adults&#8221; with a flip of a tassel &#8211; or so we say. In reality, some\u00a0of them were adults\u00a0long before there was a ceremony to prove it. Others will remain childish\u00a0for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>For 6 years, Crystal and I worked heavily\u00a0in the youth ministry at Liberty Baptist. We saw the transformation from young to adult. We spent many hours with teens around the church, our kitchen table, a campfire, or\u00a0a ball field. I taught a lot of lessons, and I think a few of them were actually helpful. So, a couple years ago I decided to write out lessons that I was trying to teach the teens without actually giving a lecture. The result was this short series. It includes lessons entitled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protect the face<\/li>\n<li>Eat the hotdog<\/li>\n<li>Read that verse out loud<\/li>\n<li>Girls can go first<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s sing that first verse again<\/li>\n<li>and\u00a0others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, if you ever sat in on a youth group lesson, suffered through a manathon, or choked down a burnt hotdog on one of our camping trips, this book may answer some questions. Or, at least it will give some background material for any therapy you may need in the future.<\/p>\n<p>If you never had the &#8220;privilege&#8221; of participating in any of those, you can still read it.\u00a0It should at least make you thankful that you didn&#8217;t have to learn these lessons the hard way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lessons-I-tried-to-teach-you-without-teaching-you.pdf\">Lessons I tried to teach you without teaching you<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click on the link to download the PDF)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_3752.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5399\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_3752-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"IMG_3752\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_3752.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_3752.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_3752.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_3752.jpg?w=1168 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_3752.jpg?w=1752 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another graduation ceremony\u00a0is upon us. Young adults move from &#8220;young&#8221; to &#8220;adults&#8221; with a flip of a tassel &#8211; or so we say. In reality, some\u00a0of them were adults\u00a0long before there was a ceremony to prove it. Others will remain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5633\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty-baptist","category-ministry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-1sR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}