Youth

3- While the idea of finding God is to direct the youth on the right path, it seems like it’s mostly done for the congregation and not really for the youth’s life. This text shows how the

The foundation to the Christian faith is the belief that God is actively involved with His creation. God has always been actively involved with His creation since the beginning of man’s first appearance on planet earth. God has used prophets and judges to express and communicate his message to His people who extended from the promise He made with Abraham. God saved his creation of humanity eternally from their sins when He sent His son Jesus as the messiah to earth. God has extended his doctrines of grace, love, mercy and forgiveness to all believers of His son and gospel. Jesus left behind the Holy Spirit as a guide to humanity to do the work of the Lord God. The doctrine of God will affect my vocation in ministry to the youth

As a Christian what I have observed in my school and in my generation is that youth do not understand what it is to be a Christian and disciple of Christ. There are those who do not have a personal relationship with Christ nor understand what being a true Christian. Then there are those who claim to be Christians but continue to live their lives with the rest of the world. And at last those who have truly dedicated their lives to Christ and have a personal relationship with Him. In 2008 I started my own organization to encourage teens to have a daily prayer life and personal relationship with Christ. I saw this need in my school and I decided to do something about it. The scripture that I use for my organization

One of the curriculums you could develop would be what is called Christ and culture. You could help the youth understand what scripture says about specific elements in culture. One way that it is done is through basing the scripture as the lesson and bring in different elements of culture. Another way is with starting with the cultural element and bringing in scripture. For example, my youth wanted to learn about the Holocaust. That is an example of culture. So that was the culture element that we based our whole curriculum around. From there we added in religious elements and how society has done things similar with what the Nazis did. After that we added in what scripture says about what is done. This takes in all elements of what Dean was saying in this book. She writes that to engage students you have to teach them what they are interested in and something that they can be involved with. Through this study the youth have learned so much about how to treat people in the Christian mind set as well, as that different religions should treat each other with respect no matter how different they are.

This being the case, he was somewhat shocked when a simple recounting of these events and his desire to enter youth ministry yielded him a job opportunity while still in school. Now, Sean spends his Wednesday evenings at Cedar Road Missionary Church, leading a small youth group comprised of 6-12th graders. Honestly, he admits that the task is intimidating. Not only are a few of the students just a shade under his own age, making the assumption of authority somewhat difficult, he is tasked with the job of coming up with lessons which are applicable to the lives of students in various stages of maturity in both a practical and spiritual

theology (Nouwen, 12). Meanwhile, Root asserts that “because influence in relational youth ministry runs the risk of being more about cultural conflict than the concrete presence of God, this rethinking…must be constructed theologically” (Root, 788). However, these writers have caused me to question exactly what a theological approach would look like in my youth ministry. It would be quite inappropriate to minister to adolescents by inserting seminary-level theology into a causal conversation with a teenager about her cats, or crisis counseling setting with my at-risk adolescent concerning her rape case. When I limit myself to the main focus of youth ministry being to lead others to salvation, I lose sight of how Christ is present within those conversations about cats and

Teens discover new friendships, new interests, and new beliefs about everything from family to faith. When asking a leader a question like "Why do we think that we are right and everyone else is wrong about how we get to heaven?" Some people may shut it down and not give an answer. We are told and taught to follow blindly but that just doesn't cut it. We have questions, which need to be answered. A teens faith a big part in the puzzle of discovering one's self and identity. This journey of finding identity with the support of loved ones is essential in resulting in deeper faith. The church offers nothing more than a moralistic therapeutic deism which means a disinterested divine power who wants to give them personal peace and prosperity. In

Segregation destroys church unity and stiffens maturity. The church strives to make the youth group a safe place where students can have fun and learn about the Bible (Snell, pp. 3). This positive goal for youth group can hinder other important issues in the church; a student maturing in his faith, or his faith remaining stagnate because he only interacts with his peers and is not challenged to handle difficult situations? One of the common problems of youth groups is that the students worship separate from the rest of the church, creating their own “mini-church” (Gibson, pp. 3). A youth group has its’ own pastor who preaches, its’ own worship music, and its’ own system of operations. For example, youth groups try and make the Bible appear

As youth leaders, we need to teach our whole group about grace. Not in a way that makes us permissive of sin, but in a way that helps see others as God sees

Although I have been afforded many opportunities to teach youth workers across the state and even on a National level, I believe that pursuing a degree in Biblical studies with a concentration on youth work would greatly benefit not only my personal ministry, but help other youth workers, and ultimately our youth which would help them develop a closer relationship with Christ, and live according the purpose God has called them to. Many youth workers have been brought up believing that the ways we’ve reached and taught youth in the past will continue to work for generations to come. This is not true. As the hymn writer, Charles Wesley wrote, “A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify, A never-dying soul to save, and fit it for the sky. To serve the present age, my calling to fulfill: O may it all my powers engage to do my master’s will! We must be mindful that what we had to deal with does not compare to what this generation faces from day to day. We did not grow up in the drug infested, gang ridden, over burdened, under loved, under nourished, crime infested, surrogate parent, impoverish, sexually explicit war zones that they live

Chaucer’s Squire’s tale has often been disregarded by critics as fragmentary, incoherent, and “a rambling narrative.” (Lawton 106) These characteristics shed a malevolent light on the tale, and raise questions on the unfinished status in the Canterbury Tales. The argument presents itself due to the interruption of the narrative by the Franklin leaving it without the ending, which has been foreshadowed earlier in the tale. The answer to this enigma is “pure speculation.” (Lawton 123) In order to examine the congruity of the tale with its teller, it is imperative to set aside the argument and “let these be faults of the narrator, not the author, [with] attention duly shifting to Chaucer’s creature, the Squire,”

In his book, Student Ministry and the Supremacy of Christ, Richard Ross states “the goal of student ministry is students who, for the glory of the Father and in the power of the Spirit, spend a lifetime embracing the full supremacy of the Son, responding to His majesty in all of life, inviting Christ to live His life through them, and joining Him in making disciples among all peoples.” This goal is highly inconceivable if discipleship is neglected. Upon interviewing my Youth Minister, Benjie Mathis, I arrived at the conclusion that discipleship is a weakness in the programming of the youth ministry.

Being born of the Spirit has brought much light to ministry, fellowship and Scripture. Whilst reflecting on my own vocation in terms of my church experience. I often feel anxiety and apprehension at the current status of church life the implications for the future. Ageing and lethargic congregations are an increasing difficult backdrop in terms of introducing new people. There is a narrow subset of people based on age, social status and Christian maturity. Church generally has settled into a routine of religion and fulfilment of self. I attend several churches of different denominations sharing common issues. I am increasingly awakened to the burden on those ministering, and the gaps between the church I experience and the

It is the youth who are encountering the most serious challenge to his/her faith under the impact of godless culture of modernity.

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the inauguration of World Youth Day in response to the desire of the Venerable John Paul II for an annual gathering of young people of faith from throughout the world. It was a prophetic initiative that has borne abundant fruits, enabling the new generations of Christians to meet one another, to listen to the Word of God, to discover the beauty of the Church, and to have a deep experience of faith. This led many of them in turn to decide to give themselves completely to Christ.