10 Tips For Missional Youth Ministry - Bonus Round
Since you’re new here, you may want to take an extra minute to subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Over the past few days we have gone through 10 tips for a missional youth ministry, it started here.
I did want to make sure that I took the time to mention what is probably [...]
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9. Show patience.
Teenagers are farther away from understanding the Gospel than in previous generations. We must be teaching the teenagers in our ministries that once they have built solid relationships and earned the right to be heard, they should not hesitate to invite friends to submit to Christ. We make sure they know that their [...]
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7. Be on guard.
As you and your teenagers work alongside the King to extend His Kingdom, our spiritual enemy will attack. One of the most important things that we can teach our students is how to guard their hearts in holiness. We need to teach them how to filter and understand the world around them. We [...]
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5. Be truthful.
Missional teenagers are able to speak the truth to their friends, teachers, and others. No matter what, missional teenagers are ready to talk about the truths in Scripture.
This tips is exceptionally difficult in an age of reletivity. Many student can get to the point where they are able to speak the truth to [...]
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3. Be friendly.
A Christian should be the most trustworthy confidant another person has in the world. We need to be teaching the teenagers in our care how they can be the kind of people everyone else wants to be around. Part of the youth worker’s job, in a missional youth ministry, is to help students [...]
10 Tips For Missional Youth Ministry (1-2)
A few weeks ago I read an article that intrigued me because of my recent thinking about creating a missional youth ministry environment. The article, by Ashley Wolpert, came to me in a Neue Weekly email it was simply titled “Missional Living.” I have adapted Ashley’s 10 tips that she ends the article with and [...]
The Missional Community in Youth Ministry - Part 2
One of the biggest and most often overlooked aspects of youth ministry should be helping students to discover their true identity. So many children become teens, then flounder through college, graduate, get a job, get married, get divorced, and never really connect with God’s vision for their life because they do not fully understand their [...]
The Missional Community in Youth Ministry - Part 1
Over the past few months I have been praying, thinking, and planning out how the youth ministry that I lead can become more missional and less programatic. By that I mean, I am trying to answer the question of “How can we lead teenagers in living out the Gospel daily instead of depending on something [...]
The Summer Experiment
So here is a little more on what I am thinking about our summer youth ministry plans. We are doing a little experiment in trying to help the teens grow into living missionally. We really want to become a community in which the teens are known as the best friends around their schools, they throw [...]
