Hear, O Youth Worker: The Shema as a Model for Discipling Students
The Shema does not give us the option of setting up our youth ministries adjacent to the church body. Instead we must locate them inside of the church body.
The Shema does not give us the option of setting up our youth ministries adjacent to the church body. Instead we must locate them inside of the church body.
Looking Jesus as our example of how to engage the world with his message of hope and love, then we must consider our place, proximity, and posture.
We are unique and set apart because we are united fully and completely to our Savior, not because we are on center stage.
While the fruit of gospel formation may not been seen until a child is grown, it is in the soil of childhood that the seeds are planted.
There is a temptation among youth workers to be all things to all students. We need to resist that temptation and keep pointing our students toward Christ and his church.
When it comes to the gospel, we yearn to live congruently, honoring the Lord Jesus in word and deed. This podcast fosters that congruence.
Teenagers need an encounter with God more than they need to be entertained.
Even though his work in our lives may not feel good, he is still working and since it is his work, it is good.
God knows that we are utterly helpless to keep our church camp commitments and to remake ourselves. That’s why we need Jesus!