Ask Rooted: How Do You Handle a Disruptive Student at Youth Group? Part Two
Most likely, a student isn’t disrupting your group time out of malice. Take the opportunity to be curious about what’s going on in his or her life.
Most likely, a student isn’t disrupting your group time out of malice. Take the opportunity to be curious about what’s going on in his or her life.
It is wise for us to be aware of our sin tendencies: are we more inclined to cut the speaker off to regain control, or are we more inclined to hide from confrontation?
When nonbelievers show up to your group, the most important thing you can do is to include them as part of your gospel ministry.
Our primary hope is not that our students would stop having anxiety, but that the glorious grace of Jesus would become louder than anxiety’s buzz.
We get to tell teenagers the good news that neither they nor their peers need to earn their place. Jesus offers us his radical welcome, and then he empowers us to live in a new way.
Only when students have been welcomed by Christ through the gospel and know who they are in him will they even have the desire to welcome others.
Because Jesus has radically welcomed us into his family, we have the opportunity to remind students that we belong to each other.
What students need most is someone who displays the character of Jesus, a Jesus who died for them and who gladly welcomes all into his family.
Psalm 19 shows us the beauty of an honest, joyful obedience that will sustain us and our teenagers over the long-haul.