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.
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.
The question for us as leaders is: do we believe Jesus and trust him that his gospel is truly enough to be the foundation upon which we build our lives and ministries?
Now is a good time to take stock of what your youth group culture looks like and how it might be more centered on the gospel.