Discipling Students After Spiritual Highs
As youth pastors, we desire to help shepherd students’ hearts to love the Lord and believe in Jesus. Spiritual highs are not our enemy, but a means by which we can disciple our students.
Whether you’re accompanying teenagers to camp for fun and spiritual growth or taking them to serve and learn from the local church in another part of the world, these weeks away can be equally fruitful and exhausting.

As youth pastors, we desire to help shepherd students’ hearts to love the Lord and believe in Jesus. Spiritual highs are not our enemy, but a means by which we can disciple our students.
We get to offer our students and families the truth of the gospel in how we have fun, care for each other, and grow.
Ultimately, every disciplinary situation presents an opportunity for the gospel because a soul rebelling is a soul in need of Christ’s saving work.
Jesus came to set us free from the things we depend on that have no power to save us.
An extended period without devices, coupled with a consistent focus on God’s Word, can help students learn to abide in God’s truth.
We can establish more relational groundwork between students and leaders on a weekend retreat than in a whole semester of mid-week youth group.