If you have a youth leader with: an over-inflated ego delusional grasp on the need to develop lay leadership limited vision overwhelming lack of wisdom then… you might have to fight for a place on the youth leadership team. Or, if you are a parent who: is un-teachable lacks flexibility focused only on your own child cannot laugh at yourself…
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Okay, I know that no self respecting teen would ever say call my “telephone” instead of “cell” but “cell” just did not ring (no pun intended – well maybe a little pun) when I posted teens and texts. Teens and cell phones have become synonymous with current statistics stating that 75% of all teens 12-17 own one. One 14-year-old recently…
This is the third and final post in the Four Erroneous Youth Ministry Philosophies series. Sections three and four represent ministry approaches based on program and personality. Youth ministries need a program as well as leadership with personality; however, both function best when founded on Biblical principles. Section Three: “All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go – Buttoned Up and…
Autonomous (capable of independent function) Youth Ministry - Part 4 Highly-effective youth ministries also have a parent ministry focus. The home should be the primary resource for spiritual training; however, we all know there are many spiritually-deficient homes. Is it our responsibility to be surrogate parents and take the place of their parents or are we to work in tandem?…
When Facebook began in 2004 it was designed for college students. It gave them a way to keep in touch and share information with other friends in college. By 2005 it opened up to high school students and in 2006 to the general populous. Now the fastest growing segments of Facebook's 300 million active users are over 25 and more…
Autonomous (capable of independent function) Youth Ministry -Part 1 What would youth ministries look like if our goal was to give our ministry away? I'm talking about literally trying to work ourselves out of a job. At first blush this sounds like a kamikaze mission. I can hear the protest now, "If I work myself out of a ministry then…