In this episode, Ben, John Paul, and Julie talk about what they have been learning over the last six weeks and how we must continue the work of race and student ministry. Show Notes and Quotes: The teenagers in your ministry are not moving on and we can not move on either. It must be a part ...
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https://youtu.be/sWfRFe313sg It's hard to believe that this shift in the way we do ministry (and all of life, really) started almost four months ago in the spring. I think we probably all imagined we would be on the other side of it by the time the season changed. I've been so encouraged by ...
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In this episode, Ben and John Paul talk about student ministry with Larry Davis. Larry Davis serves as the Student Pastor at The Journey Church in Lebanon, TN. He’s been serving in student ministry for 4 years. He’s married to his beautiful wife Madison Davis. They have a daughter named Eloise and ...
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I’ve had an interesting relationship with rest throughout my time in ministry. I’ve heard, as I’m sure you have, people talk about both the importance of rest and the need for ministry to take place in nothing short of 50+ hour work weeks. I interpreted this message as, “run until you can’t run ...
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In this episode, Ben and Julie talk about what it takes to truly reach students who don't know Christ. Show Notes and Quotes: When lost students are in your ministry, they may not look or act like the other students. Continuing to show the love of Christ and proclaiming the Gospel is ...
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Can you imagine being the only person who believed something? Literally the only person? And imagine holding fast to your faith when absolutely everyone else was doing the opposite. Most people today can’t avoid letting the people around them influence what they wear, much less anything more ...
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In this episode, Ben, John Paul, and Julie talk about five ministry intentions that seem great at first but do not always work out as intended. Show Notes and Quotes: We should not make people fit into our programs but we should flip the script and build our programming around our people. ...
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In this episode, Ben talks with A.C. Sanford about how to have race conversations in student ministry. Show Notes and Quotes: Teenagers in our ministries want and need to talk about this. If we are going to disciple teenagers, the topic of race cannot be left out. We are launching ...
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Momentum is moments put into motion and action. Leading with momentum is an art form. I am not a surfer. (It’s hard to be one when you grow up in landlocked Oklahoma.) But I do carry a respect for water and waves. The few times I have foolishly gone body surfing, I have been swallowed by the ...
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As a youth pastor, I once thought about canceling youth choir. Well, more than once actually. Depending on where you grew up and your experience with church, you may have never even heard of such a thing, but I can assure you it’s real—think High School Musical, but with teenagers from your church ...
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