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Seven Ways I’d Love to See Youth Ministry Change
by Bill Allison
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Bill Allison on youth ministry
 Question #8: Bill, how would you love to see youth ministry change?
1. I’d love to see modern youth ministry move from a programming model to a RELATIONSHIP approach... like Jesus... as explained in The Master Plan of Evangelism by Coleman.
2. I’d love to see youth ministry move from being youth pastor centered to equipping students (including junior high students) and adult volunteers to do the ministry—in Ephesians 4:11-12 fashion.
3. I’d love to see youth ministries totally unleash cultural creativity without throwing out basic and clear theology found in the Bible.
4. I'd love to see YOUTH WORKERS develop relationships with unsaved people.
5. I’d love to see youth ministry quit jumping on the latest band wagon of ideas being sold without thinking through the biblical and relational ramifications.
6. I’d love to see adult youth workers (volunteer and vocational) move from sitting at the back of the room—to the table of encountering God with students.
7. I'd love to see a training conference for REGULAR youth workers that has no nationally known speakers or churches involved—but is led and taught by some of the most effective (yet under-the-radar) youth workers in the country—from REGULAR size churches in regular towns throughout the US.
- Note: To get the complete interview, GO HERE.
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By Dave Garda
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The Art of Creating Apathy in Christian Students
The following is an excerpt from Email from Hell for students |
To: All of my young demonic disciples of destruction
From: Beelzebub
Once students reach the junior high/middle school years, encourage them to get overly BUSY doing things that are good—but not necessarily what is BEST. The goal here is to get them busy doing anything except that which is eternally important. You know the old saying, “If the Devil can’t make you bad, he’ll make you busy.” Remember: we work for the Devil—so let’s bury those students in busyness. (It’s working quite well with adults these days!) Get younger students focused on themselves, being popular and cool, and involved in the zillions of good activities that demand all of their time and attention. Good is the worst enemy of best—and if students get so caught up in good things—they will never have time to do that which is eternally best. For older students, focus their attention solely on buying cars, working at McDonalds, and making money for college—all “good” things that can be used to choke their spiritual fruitfulness (see Mark 4:19). Help Christian high school students forget the fact that they only have so many years to be in a youth ministry—lest they make the most of those years.
Pull them from the fire of other Christians SLOWLY so they cool off just a little bit. Don’t try to take them from hot to cold in one day! Just try to SLOWLY cool them down degree by degree and before they know it—they are spiritual popsicles! This starts by taking them out of the influence of youth ministry—and away from adult youth workers and other radical Christ-following students who really love them. Before long, they stop reading the Bible, praying, and sharing their faith. From there, it is a fast moving ski-ride down to spiritual Iceland.
I have so much more to teach you, my little demons of SLOW destruction, but these suggestions will get you started in the art of creating apathy in Christian students. Slowly and steadily take the spiritual fire of Christian students down—one little degree at a time. Remember: spiritual destruction via apathy is a slow steady leak—not a one time blow out.
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Just for Fun
In the spirit of this special Youth Ministry edition of Cadre Connection, let’s have a little fun! Here are two seemingly not so funny pictures. But click the link next to each picture and have some fun… as you get what Paul Harvey calls “the rest of the story.”
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