Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Time

We live in a world where we want instant results.
People ask me where they can get good material for children's and youth ministry.
And there are good resources out there and many people just don't know what to do and so good material gives them the direction they need.

I would like to encourage you to have a go at writing material for yourself.

Recently a friend ran a crèche age program, parents that were there with their child said it was excellent and are looking forward to when she is on again.
She was given 10 pages of material.
She used none of the material given to her!
4 hours later she was ready.

She had to think.
She knew her material
She would have grown by spending time digesting the topic.
And yes it did take 4 hours.

Friends that is ministry

Spend the time, it's time well spent.

Monday, March 02, 2015

Games, growth and making disciples

I hear this a lot in Youth Ministry.
Just play games and get young people along.
We want our young people to have fun and belong.
Attractional youth ministry.
Numbers youth ministry

Think about a time in your life when you had tremendous growth as a Christian.
I can almost guarantee it was when you were spending good time in Bible reading, devoted time in prayer, listening to good preaching, regularly meeting with Christians and using your gifts and abilities to serve in some capacity.
This was the case for me over the last year.

I'm guessing it wasn't when you were playing heaps of games.

So why is it that we want to do that with our young people?

I'm not against games.

I am for Making Disciples.