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Recent content by NeedtoSurrender98

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    How do I truly savor God's presence?

    My favorite quotes right now are "You share what you savor." And "You can't lead others where you've never been." I've been a Christian for several years now, but I've always been terrified or even unmotivated to discuss salvation, testimony, etc with others, and I think it's rooted in my lack...
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    How Can You Tell Whether or Not You're Cut Out for Youth Ministry?

    It's me again, the 18 year old youth leader who never has any idea what she's doing. I've had a lot of failures but last night was my lowest moment. We had a group prayer with the students, and I grew anxious and began trembling, stuttered a prayer that was just a mess of ideas and ended in an...
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    Is it ever ethical for a youth leader to hang out outside of church with a student?

    I'm 18 years old, female, I've been a youth leader for a couple of months. I'm sorry if this is something I should already know by now, I just wanted to be clear on this issue so I don't make a mistake. One of the students in my youth group-almost 16 years old-keeps talking about how her love...
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    What is the appropriate response as a youth leader to a student who confides something to you?

    I'm female, 18, training to be a youth leader, and a male student-10/11th grade-confided in me a past sin that he insists he'll never repeat. When he told me not to tell anyone, I felt I should've said "I won't tell anyone as long as it isn't something that would be better for another person to...
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    New youth leader, need advice!

    A couple months ago, at the end of my senior year, I was asked to train to be a youth leader. I have two months of shadowing other youth leaders left before its official, and I'm terrified I don't have what it takes. I've grown up with social anxiety-I naturally repress whenever there are people...
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    Question about God's will

    I've been reading a book that talks about surrendering to God's will for our love lives, and I want to have a deeper understanding of what God's will truly is. But where I keep getting stuck is, since everything is predetermined and God already knows what's going to happen and uses it for his...
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    Please pray for my friend and his church

    I'm asking for prayer, again for the same guy I asked prayer for the last time. I guess it's just mostly worrying at this point, as I'm not in his life that much anymore, but something that happened a while ago still bothers me. Basically, a middle aged male youth pastor and he were being...
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    Please pray for my childhood friend's source of identity

    I'm a girl in high school, and the trend going on in public schools is that you have to conform to what society tells you about your sexual identity/orientation and how you can't be happy if your lifestyle or sense of identity/purpose doesn't accommodate or at least experiment with the label...