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David Briggs - The No. 1 Reason Teens Keep the Faith as Young Adults
"Parents set a kind of glass ceiling of religious commitment, above which their children rarely rise” ...
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Why Guys In Your Ministry Love Video Games More Than Jesus
The following post was written by Ben Trueblood, Director of Lifeway Student Ministry
Video games are a big deal in our culture today. Your students are playing them and chances are many of you are playing them as well. This year, for the first time, a college has given scholarship money to ...
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5 Goals You Should Set In Student Ministry
I hope that you are in the practice of setting goals in your ministry. Setting goals can be an important tool for strategy, growth, and evaluation, as well as for your own personal and spiritual development. Last week I posted a link to this article from Eric Geiger on the importance of leading with ...
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Parent Ministry: Developing Adult Leaders (Part 4)
Student ministry is hard work and to do it effectively takes many hours of prayer, Bible study, strategy, organization and relationship building. This is one reason why student pastors may decide to be minimally involved in parent ministry.
The argument is that student ministry is about the ...
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Parent Ministry: Who’s the Hero? (Part 3)
There is something within all of us that wants to be a hero. We want to ride in on the white horse and rescue whoever it is that needs rescuing. As student pastors, this mindset can motivate you to many positive actions, but if left unchecked it can have a devastating affect on your ...
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Parenting Ministry: You Don’t Need to Know All the Answers (Part 2)
There are times when a student pastor or youth leader begins parent ministry only to realize that they don’t have the all the answers for those parents. Here’s the great news: you don’t need to have all the answers to have an effective parent ministry. What you do need to have is the right starting ...
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Parenting Ministry: Are You Ready? (Part 1)
Ministry to parents as a part of student ministry is not a new idea, but it is something that is gaining more attention, and rightfully so. It is an essential part of any effective student ministry, but there are many who are apprehensive about engaging in ministry to parents.
Why would a student ...
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5 Things to Remember about Ministry and Family
There are many opinions on the topic of family and ministry. If you haven’t read Kerry Ray’s post Choosing to live an Unbalanced Life, I would highly recommend reading it.
If you are leading student ministry and you have a family, then student ministry is something you do as a family. If you're ...
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Strategically Choose Curriculum
Choosing the right curriculum -- the one that matches your unique discipleship strategy -- can be very difficult. There are numerous options available and choosing the wrong one can be painful. A wise discipleship plan is focused on Christ, rooted in Scripture, and leads to application. Because of ...
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Do You Have a Wise Discipleship Plan?
The window of discipleship opportunity that we have is short. In my post You Only Have Two Days a Year to Disciple Students we considered the thought that students only spend, on average, two days per year in a small group. Because of this, we must maximize each moment and one of the prime ways to ...
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