Here are a few ways you can encourage students to share, although I bet you can get with them and come up with creative ideas of your own. • Post their testimony as a Facebook note or on their blog or...
I believe student ministry needs reformation, not annihilation. I also believe the system currently in operation in many churches — more pizza parties than theological passion and more games than gosp...
Negatively, abstain from the passions of the flesh. Think of it this way: pursue the things in your life that stir your affections for Jesus. Conversely, abstain from the things that tend to diminish...
More seeds of ministry are sown in youth between the ages of twelve and eighteen, more relationships forged that affect their future, more choices made with long-term implications, than arguably any o...
The joy of God equips us with knowledge, freedom, and strength. . . . Our identities and motivations are invested in loving others rather than serving ourselves. And we have the power of the Spirit to...
Never will I be satisfied until God works in convicting power and men and women weep their way to the cross. . . . Oh that He would break me down and cause me to weep for the salvation of souls.
We have taken the good news of the gospel off the headlines of our ministries where it should always be, and we have put it in the advice column part of our youth groups. We pull the gospel out to giv...
For the body of Christ to yearn for revitalization it must begin with the truth that she does not exist for herself or for her members, but she belongs to God. We cannot compartmentalize the local chu...
How many students are sharing their faith? How many are volunteering at the school? How are students in your ministry cultivating relationships with unchurched youth? How are their families doing? How...
Kenda Creasy Dean observed, The National Study of Youth and Religion reveals a theological fault line running underneath American churches: an adherence to a do-good, feel-good spirituality that has l...
First, we are not selling something people may or may not need; we are offering a free gift that is the most vital news a person could ever know. Second, when you sell something, you are dependent on...
S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien speaks to this innate human desire for being part of larger-than-life stories, quests, and victories—the draw of our hearts toward myths, which Lewis said were lies and t...
God, give me today (1) an opportunity to speak with someone about Jesus; (2) the wisdom to see it; and (3) the courage to take it. Talking with God regularly about our witness helps overcome our fears...
Christianity is a movement to be advanced, not merely an institution to be maintained.
Jesus is going to return one day and take his bride, all believers, to a new heaven and earth. We will be in the very presence of Jesus, the one who saved us and walks with us. Take hope in that fact.
Principle 4: God has sovereignly placed you in this world at this time with the abilities and gifts you have to bring glory to him and show the joy of the gospel to others.
Revitalizing a church does not start with a list of how to’s, but with a fresh vision of God and His Lordship over the church.
The church is not a hotel for saints; it is a hospital for sinners.
We need student pastors and national and parachurch leaders who are better at theology than at new ideas.
Jesus also told us to keep his commands not out of fear of his wrath, but so that our joy would be made full (John 15:10–11 ESV).
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