Check this out. Thanks to Gavin.
… We talk about being “missional” and how attractional just isn’t cutting it anymore. Yet traditional youth ministry is nothing but attractional. We have events and tell kids to bring their friends to us. We feel like youth ministry has to have some sense of “attractiveness”. At the same time, across of much of my county youth ministries are in a lull and are bogging down. I hear it from youth pastors all the time. We think maybe we need to teach better. Or maybe we need to get some games in there to make it more exciting. Maybe we need a catchy name with words like XTREME or FIRE or XTREME FIRE! I mean it’s got to be better than Hartville Mennonite Church MYF (Mennonite Youth Fellowship) right? How can we make one event more exciting than the next. I am so tired of it.
I am tired of doing the same old stuff. Why? IT ISN’T WORKING!!…
Read it all here.
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