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.
No matter the season, we can rest in faith, knowing that God’s story is certain.
Lopes summarizes what the Bible teaches men about serving their families: the “how-tos” of spiritual leadership and the heart behind it.
Gospel-centered youth ministry is about more than the content of our Bible teaching; the form of our ministry must reflect the gospel, too.
My students and I needed to believe anew that Christ has freed us from the restlessness that debilitates us.
It’s only after running myself into emotional, spiritual, or physical depletion that I remember… “Oh yeah. God says I’m…”
Jesus moves from solitude to community to ministry. He teaches his disciples to do likewise.
When we ultimately forget to send that email, forget about a meeting, or overlook an important text, there is abundant grace in the gospel…We are saved by grace through the victorious work of Jesus. And He invites us to participate in a finished work.
When we accept that difficulty is inevitable because of our broken world, we stop treating God as the one who takes away our comfort and start bowing in submission to a God who reveals His loving hand through our suffering.