Guess what? Nobody has the corner on the youth ministry market. There’s no one right way to bring kids closer to Jesus: not small groups, not candles and contemplation, not big-group outreaches, not student-led cell groups, not intense Bible study, not service projects. As our youth ministry experience is broadened by space and time, we learn that nothing works all of the time for everybody; but most of it works part of the time for somebody.
If this is true (and I believe it is), then our task is to be faithful to what God wants us to do. My read of scripture leads me to conclude that we are to proclaim the gospel and teach the Bible. and I might add that we are to do this in the context of community. In other words, we are called to be the church. Programs are means to accomplish things but the priorities are not programs.
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