Youth Ministry 3.0
I'm up late, in bed, after a long stretch of soaking up some thoughts relating to a new paradigm shift in youth ministry. In the view of current church trends, we had a fairly succesful event last night at FUEL. We played a game, sang some worship songs, promoted the new youth camp, had 90+ in attendance, and talked about growing up in Christ!! I had a significant conversation with at least 10 of our student to top it all off!
As I look at it without the lense of "success", I have to ask the question - " did we accomplish anything?". I guess some of our students got it - one of them actually said "thanks"! In reading through Romans and gaining a little bit of the passion that Paul expresses as our HOPE in Christ, I would think that if as many of our students are pursuing Christ as they claim, there would be some PASSION revealed by life change. I'm wondering - is it even there? Maybe it is, maybe I'm not standing close enough to see it fleshed out. I'm praying for passion among our students as I seek that for my own life!!
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Good thoughts! Did you read Scott's blog, you guys must be on the same page!
Great minds think alike. And also when you said you were soaking last night I thought the blog was gonna be about your other soacking incident, it made me laugh. But I def wonder the same thing alot. But at the same time the word says that some are called to be planters, some nurturers, and others harvesters. I was reading the other day also where it talks about God being the one who makes the seeds grow. We are powerless in that area, so I guess this is where we have to trust God to grow the seed of Passion for Him into a full blown stankin big harvest of Passion?? I dont know, anyhow, great thoughts. See ya at lunch.
Gosh, I just wrote a whole reply and lost it. Bummer! Here it goes again... I too struggle with those issues especially with Austyn now being a part of the youth group. So I try to remember myself at the age and can't recall being passionate about anything.....but myself. Sad.. but the truth. God was on the back burner. Later though, I realized that other things were way more important than me. That Jesus Christ could love me unconditionally even though I put Him last still amazes me and shames me at the same time. My God, family & friends and yes even church are now my passion. J.C. continues to teach me of his agape love and through that, even the slightest flicker of faith that I see in students reminds me to keep running the race. Past youth workers DID make an impact on me and it was their LOVE not their teachings that I remember. So I am striving to LOVE STUDENTS. That's my motto!
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