Their Good Shepherd Is Our Good Shepherd: A Promise for the Minister Leading Youth
Our students belong to a Good Shepherd who will lead them and guide them exactly where he wants them to go in exactly the way he intends.
Our students belong to a Good Shepherd who will lead them and guide them exactly where he wants them to go in exactly the way he intends.
Questions like this one give us a wonderful opportunity to remind students that God’s grace is a free gift in Jesus.
We should fight for community. Our students are dying for it. The Church is built on it. Our mission is driven by it.
It’s not about me and whether I am worthy or not, whether I feel close to God or far away. It’s always been about him… what he can and will do.
As youth ministers, we have the opportunity to draw out that feeling of longing and to show how it is answered in the gospel.
While “love is love” is catchy (and undeniably effective), John reels us back in and tells us the even better truth: God is love.
If I’m being honest with myself, I used to think Jesus died for my sins, and now the rest was up to me.
Jude is a book loaded with the “solid food” Paul writes about (1 Cor. 3:2), stuffed with truths about God, our world, and ourselves.
Let’s avoid giving Bible-based messages in which we begin with the Bible, only to launch into other topics that we think will interest young people more.