What is Bible-Saturated Youth Ministry?
The story, teaching, and God of the Bible ought to shape every aspect of our youth ministry’s vision, mission, values, and methodology.
The story, teaching, and God of the Bible ought to shape every aspect of our youth ministry’s vision, mission, values, and methodology.
Gospel-centered youth ministry is about more than the content of our Bible teaching; the form of our ministry must reflect the gospel, too.
A grace-filled ministry is Christocentric, looking continually to Jesus as the perfect source of all grace, love, and mercy.
Each spring we as youth ministers are faced with various transitions in the lives of our students as new sixth or seventh graders enter our middle school ministries, eighth graders promote to high school, and another class of seniors graduates and leaves us.
My students and I needed to believe anew that Christ has freed us from the restlessness that debilitates us.
Faith in exile requires the gospel to be our “operating system” – the foundation for our relationships, our work, our engagement with culture.
Our students are invited to draw near to the throne through Christ – not when their anxieties are over, but in the midst of the worst of them.
May we never cease to lead our students to the only one who is able to truly meet their deepest needs with transformative grace.
As the pandemic begins to subside, Ezra’s intermingling of joy and sorrow has everything to do with our students.