What is it your passionate about? What is it that drives you? What makes you overflow in love and submission before God? What gives you most joy? I think it should probably be the Gospel; the truth that God came to earth in Jesus, lived a sinless life, died in your place for your forgiveness … Continue reading
The following is written by my good friend Ben Slee. Find more out about Ben & his music projects here. Tim asked me if I could write a brief note on the thrills and spills of growing from a youth group member into a youth group leader, based on my own experience, mistakes, God’s grace, … Continue reading
It’s been some emotional roller-coaster this whole youth ministry thing. I’ve been in the deep end and the shallow kiddy pool of my heart-spine. I’ve struggled with mild discouragement, bouts of depression, and prolonged stress at different stages of my career so far; and it can be very difficult sometimes to distinguish which set of … Continue reading
Doug Fields in his book Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry makes four undeniable points on p.31, namely: ‘You’ll be busy! You’ll have only 86,400 seconds to live each day. You’ll struggle in your youth ministry if you can’t manage your time. Plan your time or people will plan it for you.’ In whatever … Continue reading
Hi folks. I feel like such a killjoy sometimes. I straddle a lot of fences which pleases no-one. I’m genuinely a Charismatic and love modern and emerging expressions of Church. I’m also genuinely a nutcase and love off the wall, creative ideas. I’m also genuinely Reformed, and believe in the infallibility of the Bible and … Continue reading
[Getting Fired for the Glory of God, Collected Writings of Mike Yaconelli. By Mark Yaconelli. (Youth Specialties, 2008). pp.23-26] Selected quotes & summary notes on some sinful tendencies that youth ministry can easily stray towards from from ‘The Sins of Youth Ministry’ by Mike Yaconelli (found in ‘Getting Fired for the Glory of God’.) 1. … Continue reading
