Archive for Theology of Youth Ministry
Measuring Spirituallity
I hear it all the time and I’m sure you hear it too. I think I’ve even said it in an attempt to convince myself. Numbers aren’t that important. I’ve even had people try to tell me that Jesus wasn’t concerned about numbers and the Bible really doesn’t seem to care much about numbers. Unfortunately [...]
Relational Ministry
Fourteen years ago I was the half time youth pastor at a small church in Harris, MN. I was going to college full time and trying to support my wife. I remember trying to figure out how to do youth ministry. I hadn’t really had any training, so I was just winging things. I had [...]
Social Networking and Ministry
Relationships…what are they? We talk about relationships all the time. Sometimes it is a boyfriend or girlfriend, sometimes we are talking about friendship or various other relationships. In my conversation with some youth pastors and a youth ministry seminary professor about social networking and youth ministry dealt specifically with this issue. They were convinced that [...]
Social Networking and Ministry
It’s crazy, but when I started on facebook I needed to get to the fifty friends mark and once I did that one hundred seemed pretty doable. I made one hundred and then I realized I was just a beginner, I only had one hundred friends…what a loser. You probably get where this is going. [...]
