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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Why Your Students Should Care About Baptism
As a student pastor, baptism was one of my favorite parts of ministry! It is a profound privilege to share in the moment of celebration and victory in Jesus that a person feels on the day of their baptism. My passion for seeing students saved and baptized was something that I kept constantly in ...
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Reverse the Trend: An Emphasis on Student Ministry Evangelism and Baptism
In July 2014 Ronnie Floyd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention posted this blog on the current and declining state of student ministry evangelism and baptisms. Dr. Floyd’s main three points:
We are not reaching young people effectively.
We are not discipling young people ...
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Boosting Your Ministry Through Baptism
The following post was written by John Paul Basham, Student Ministry Specialist
The more I speak to Student Pastors around the country, the more I hear questions along the lines of, how to inject new life into a struggling ministry, or how to grow a ministry that has plateaued. Although there is ...
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