Whether God leads you into a lifetime of youth ministry or takes you through a season of it, the Gospel you share and the relationships Jesus fosters in His work will bear “fruit that [continues] to blossom.”
In this session we’ll be exploring how the distinction between the Law and the Gospel – one of the primary themes of the Protestant Reformation – might serve as a resource as we negotiate this crucible of teenage life and faith.
Here are the best new gospel-centered resources for youth pastors from 2020.
Most importantly, we want to continue to point them to Jesus through every minute of this uncertainty.
Let’s tell kids that our obedience to God’s law through the power of the Holy Spirit and out of faith in his grace are a part of something bigger: that obedience is part of God blessing and redeeming the world.
I ask you as parents to evaluate and encourage youth pastors in the same way we should evaluate and encourage all other pastors: based on their ability to preach and teach God’s Word, to exhort and encourage the church, and to lead their flocks well.
After having the opportunity to sit under the preaching of my senior pastor and college pastor for the past two and a half years, I wish my high school youth pastors would have preached the Bible similarly: deeply, simply, and lovingly.
Reading the Bible through the lens of law and gospel safeguards the Word from being read predominantly as an instruction manual—basically the default of teenagers—rather as a living instrument of the Spirit…
The more I’ve studied, the more I’ve realized unusual Bible stories aren’t weird, I just don’t understand the point yet. And hidden in the weirdness is normally very good news.
