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5 Reasons Church Kids Don’t Come To Youth
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion/5-reasons-kids-in-church-dont-come-to-youth?si=4cf220bc42bf447a8f5d26388b698ef0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing I think we have to realize that there are many kinds of...
Crazy Calendar Activities For Your Youth Meeting
There are so many National Day of This and Something Something Day of that and it's time youth ministries started benefitting from it. These are the best days, I think, youth ministries can take advantage of if your youth meetings fall on a...
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The Burden of Games
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion/the-burden-of-games?si=63da026b658d4fef9cc6f8c4c9db453f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing I have played hundreds of games with youth groups, camp groups, retreat groups...
Youth Group Bible Study On Deconstructing Faith Part 3
https://youtu.be/wlkLBCIZGJU This is part three of a three part bible study on helping those who walk away from the faith and how to strengthen your own faith in the process. Click here to go to part one. Why isn't God afraid of our hard questions?...
10 Things I Learned At A High School Campus Bible Club
I'm was an area rep for an organization called First Priority. First Priority equips students, youth workers and teach sponsors with resources and training to share the gospel through Bible clubs on their school campus. I had the honor of visiting...
Youth Group Bible Study On Deconstructing Faith Part 2
Show Video (stars from 15:42) Small Group Questions What is the difference between persuasion and manipulation? (persuasion is about the other persom manipulation focuses on and/or benefits yourself) Why is quoting scripture (abusing someone with...
Reframing 3 Common Youth Ministry Phrases
This article is not about semantics, it's about language. The language we use as believers, be you reformed, evangelical or pentecostal, can be confusing, especially to a young person. The discussion around the kind of religious language we use...
The Only Way Is Forward
Let this image sit with you. Where are you coming from? Where are you going to? Why are you going there? Why can't you go back? This reminds me of the scripture, Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.-...
For some of you it's the day after a youth meeting. I hope it went well, but if it didn't don't beat yourself up, there's always next week. Let me offer a few Day After Youth Meeting recovery tips regardless of how your meeting went Don't do...
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Youth Group Bible Study on Deconstructing Faith
I have never been through a proper deconstruction process, I can only assume it's because I have an analytic mind and I find myself analyzing my beliefs in real time. So, maybe I'm alway deconstructing. I'm no super Christian though. I struggle...
The Youth Pastor’s Guide To Apologies
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion/the-youth-pastors-guide-to-apologies?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing All youth pastors have done it. And if you haven't, you will. You'll play the game that goes sideways...
The 9 Risks of Becoming A Youth Pastor
https://soundcloud.com/yminmotion/the-9-risks-of-youth-ministry?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing I have been working in youth ministry in the local church, camps and campus ministry for over 30 years, but...
Youth Bible Study On Social Media
I just watched the new video/song from 90's band Disturbed. They're not a Christian band or even a religious one but they are spiritual. The lead singer David Draiman grew up an Orthodox Jew but pushed back against its strict methodology. The new...
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HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT