Near Sighted Youth Ministry
Driving is on of those mile markers in the life of students. Every time someone got their license or their Learners Permit I heard about it. If it wasn’t the student is was the parent who told me the news. Of course I usually had some kind of smart alic remark about how people should stay off the sidewalks or the streets are no longer safe. It is amazing the amount of preparation students must go through in order to drive a car.
Cars are dangerous and can kill. There is good reason to make people go through a lot of training before they are given the license to drive a car. The mind and the spirit are equally as dangerous and fragile. It is amazing to me how little we prepare students to use these and understand these powerful things. A life is a terrible thing to waist. We will often challenge students to avoid waisting their life, but do we really prepare them to use there life well?
This is a daunting task one in which youth ministry plays a small role. The question for any ministry is, “How does your ministry help accomplish this in students lives?” and “What is the Biblical basis for this?”
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