Does our trinitarian God, the Creator of our humanity who longs for communion with us, want us to reframe this outbreak as a yet another opportunity for false cheer, making tender hearts weep with shame? Could there be a more humane and compassionate response? People quip “Don’t complain!” and “See only the good!” while there is real and immense suffering happening in our midst.
Nowhere do we see more examples of this heavy weight placed on the shoulders of the body of Christ than in the local church. And it is telling when our churches act as a place where only happiness belongs when the experience of being human is so much richer and more complex than the prevailing culture would have us believe. As a practicing psychotherapist, I am aware of how brave it is for my clients to share their hurts with me when they have not been given a chance to release their sorrows to friends, family, or at church. Marko is a partner in The Youth Cartel, providing resources, training and coaching for church youth workers.It’s dangerous when we marry Christian theology with cultural lies of toxic positivity, especially during something like the devastating coronavirus pandemic. Marko has authored or contributed to more than 70 books, including the much-talked-about Youth Ministry 3.0. Concurrently, Marko was also a part of the leadership team of Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI). For 11 years, Marko was at Youth Specialties in San Diego, an organization that trains and equips church youth workers – the last 8 of those years as president. Marko has had a broad experience working in churches in roles ranging from Junior High Pastor to Executive Pastor.
Mark Oestreicher has been involved in church ministry his whole life, particularly with teenagers and youth workers. Could there be some way to avoid being blindsided with a church job going south? Join Josh and his guest Marko as they discuss some practical ways that negative church work experiences might be avoided even from the interview process. What is the reason that this is so common in church work. So many of us have found ourselves in situations where we are either fired or leave our churches.
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