* This issue of discipleship just keeps coming up in my mind. I guess it's because I'm seeing it in front of me. There's young ministries that as they keep growing in numbers they seem to put this behind them and it now becomes about pushing your name & numbers. You can also put the ministries that God is slowly blessing with resources and put on alot of concerts and look for the same results. But what about that small youth ministry just getting underway or just not growing as much, we seem to be fired up about 1 on 1 evangelism, impacting their community, and chopping it up together.
* As the years of a youth group/ministry expand, I'm a firm believer that as the next generations come in and culture changes, the main core values are always to stay. "Oh, this / that is traditional!" NO!! IT'S NECESSARY!!
* A friend onces said to a group of leaders, "It's not so much what happens from 8-10 but what happens after 10". Meaning sometimes the greatest impact isn't always when we put on that concert or some huge party but it's that 1 or 1 time that really gets to the heart. A back-slid young person reminsing on old days of being in a youth ministry and serving God said, "I remember when we would go out to eat every week and fellowship after the meeting." I was about of youth ministry for 10 years (6 as a young radical) and the times I cherish most are the ones when leaders would take some fellow peers & I out for dinner after the service. For 2/3 hours, we would just eat, joke around, drip the scriptures and talk life. There were also many times that we stay late after the meeting. We all would huddle on stage just worship, maybe do a devotion, pray, or share what's on our heart and the situations in out lives. There were powerful and life changing!
random thoughts as they come to mind...will restructure & put together in the coming days!
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