Comments on: Integrity Lost https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/13/integrity-lost/ A Global Immersion Site Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:17:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Steve Lindley https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/13/integrity-lost/#comment-504 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:17:59 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1933#comment-504 In reply to Shelby Clark.

Yes, I’ve been that kid and sometimes I still am. So often, I have to take myself back to the “Adolescent Brain” course I took in seminary, and remember what’s going on (and what isn’t) in the teenage brain.

]]> By: Steve Lindley https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/13/integrity-lost/#comment-503 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:13:12 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1933#comment-503 In reply to Kassandra Quick-Vana.

“We take hope in remembering that God is not finished with them yet” … and all of us! Thank you for the reminder, Kassandra!

]]> By: Steve Lindley https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/13/integrity-lost/#comment-502 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:12:03 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1933#comment-502 In reply to Brigid Smith.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for the prayers, Brigid!

]]> By: Shelby Clark https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/13/integrity-lost/#comment-495 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:27:26 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1933#comment-495 Thank you for sharing your ache, Steve! Your post makes me wonder more about the gaps you’ve identified: Between freedom from and freedom for, between freedom and bondage, between our minds and hearts. How do we navigate the paradox of living ideals as very imperfect humans? What does sitting in the messy middle look like? How do we repair when we’ve been the kids in your story? How do we teach that repair in a way that is meaningful and practical? Those are some of my wonderings I’m sitting with.

]]> By: Kassandra Quick-Vana https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/13/integrity-lost/#comment-482 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:48:23 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1933#comment-482 What is happening in and among our Confirmation students is a microcosm of what we are seeing in our communities and our nation.

Steve – I find this to be true in my students as well, along with hearing this from many others who are presently in the student ministry space. Discouraging for sure but how could it be any different when our students are simply following the lead of the culture they are immersed in outside of the 1 or 2 hours each week that they are in the house of the Lord. Thank you for the good work that you and your wife are doing to teach them truth and call them to a higher standard and better way. We take hope in remembering that God is not finished with them yet!

]]> By: Brigid Smith https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/13/integrity-lost/#comment-468 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:33:32 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1933#comment-468 This is heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing what you’re experiencing, I’m going to pray for your kids and their families right now. And for you and your fellow leaders. How do we embody the heart of Jesus, the Way of Jesus to our young people right now? Lord, show us the way.

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