How do you measure discipleship? My guess is that you've asked yourself this question before. It's a tough question, but one we should frequently wrestle with. Making disciples is what student ministry is about, yet the path to this goal seems so ambiguous. This leaves many student ministries ...
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Healthy Student Ministries are Culture Shaping
Take a moment and think about the students in your ministry. Now, focus in on the most squirrely, off-the-wall student you have. I know exactly which student it would be for me. In thirteen years of student ministry and three different churches one student rises above all the others in this ...
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Healthy Student Ministries are Character Transforming
I spent the first three years of college in the business school at the University of Arkansas where the focus of my degree was transportation and logistics. Many of our discussions focused on Walmart, which isn’t surprising considering Walmart headquarters is nearby, and the business school is named ...
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Healthy Student Ministries are Kingdom Expanding
I’ve noticed throughout the years that student pastors have developed adverse feelings to following words: evangelist, evangelistic, numbers, and invitation. At the same time churches in the Southern Baptist Convention have declined in youth baptisms at an alarming rate. In 2013 60% of the 46,125 ...
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Building a Winning Team
A student pastor is a leader of teams. This is true in every context and in every church size. Sure, there are some “Lone Ranger” type student pastors out there that want to do everything on their own but they usually don’t last long and they aren’t doing true biblical ministry. Just as the ...
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March Madness: Keeping Your Seniors
Keeping your seniors engaged all the way through graduation is one of the most difficult things in student ministry. They are quickly approaching the biggest transition of their lives. They have essentially been in the same school environment for the last 7 years, and they are ready for a change. To ...
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March Madness: Finishing Strong on Campus
March is insane. It has arrived faster than you ever thought it would and it feels like summer is going to be here tomorrow. Spring break vacations or mission trips are about to happen, schools are frantically wrapping up and your students are anticipating the end of another year. Along with that ...
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Key Players
I’ve been waiting for this day since November. It is a day on the calendar that marks the beginning of a new season. In the middle of the bitter cold for much of the country, this day reveals something warmer on the horizon. To many, today is just another day, but for the baseball fan you know today ...
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The Problem with Purity
We have a problem with purity in the church. Students in our culture are bombarded with sexual imagery and speech seemingly at every turn. Sex has become more casual and pornography has become more available and both are wrecking lives in your student ministry and in your church at large. This is no ...
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I’m Trying Everything and Nothing Works
Have you ever felt the way this title suggests? I have. There have been seasons of ministry where things just didn’t seem to be clicking the way that I imagined they would or should be. If you’ve had these seasons as well you know that it’s not a great place to be. Looking back I’ve often wondered ...
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