Lesson Learned | Kurt Johnston

Main message: The speaker flips the usual adult-teaches-kids script and shows how adults can learn four practical spiritual habits from young people in the Bible: listen up, step up, shush up, and offer up. Each lesson includes a simple practice to put it into daily life.

Key points:

• Samuel (1 Samuel 3:9) — listen up: carve out regular, quiet time (same place/time) to hear God.
• Esther (Esther 4) — step up: use your position and influence to promote, protect, and provide for others, even when it’s risky or uncomfortable.
• The youths who mocked Elisha (2 Kings 2:23-24) — shush up: words have consequences; practice pausing, praying, then proceeding with caution (ask: is it true, necessary, kind, well-timed?).
• The boy with five loaves and two fish (John 6) — offer up: pay attention to what God is doing and willingly share what you have to help; sermon applied this to sponsoring summer camp scholarships for students.

Scriptures mentioned: 1 Samuel 3:9, Esther 4, 2 Kings 2:23-24, John 6