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Youth Group For Parents?
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I have been reading up on some articles about youth ministry because I have been doing that for about six years now. There seems to be quite a debate about how youth ministry is to be done. One organization called Family Life.com has a transcript on the topic of parents raising up children in the Lord.
Go here to read more: http://www.familylife.com/fltoday/default.asp?id=8820 (then click on transcript).
Here is the main piece I wanted to touch on:
“Fathers, disciple your children.” Fathers. If we believe this, then why is it that we’ve done everything in our power not to allow that to happen.And I hear you. We’re going back to this whole thing, I understand that, but they’re just not equipped, they just don’t know. Here’s what’s interesting. If the people in your church are not tithing, you don’t start a ministry to tithe for them, do you?
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No, you simply teach them and expect them to do what the Bible says is their job. If it works for tithing, why don’t we think it will work for the discipleship of the next generation? So what do we do with this? I’m not telling you you ought to go fire your youth pastors tomorrow. That’s not what I’m saying here. But we have to completely revamp our philosophies. In the last couple of minutes that I have left, let me give you a few things that we must do.
Number one, I beseech you, if you don’t have a biblical view of children, get on your face before almighty God and repent….Again, you can read the full transcript: http://www.familylife.com/fltoday/default.asp?id=8820 (click on transcript)
I have thought for some time now that maybe youth pastors could offer a youth group for parents or at least be able to help equip parents to learn how to disciple their children. I think this is missing in most of the churches that I know about. Maybe I can get something going.
I’m still a believer that having a youth program of some type is still very useful for the students that aren’t going to have homes with parents “discipling” them. That’s where I believe that having a great team of spiritual moms and dads is important and therefore a weekly youth ministry gathering has great value.
Thoughts anyone?
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Tim said:
I’ve found that parents guard their time very closely, especially when it comes to youth group. They often make a differentiation between church youth group and home, not a team mentality. “You do your thing at church, we’ll do ours at home.” So, if you offer anything for parents, it MUST be something they deem worthy of their time and they find valuable. Otherwise it’ll flop.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:37 pm -
Mackenzie said:
I have thought for a long while about how to get our children and youth what they really need in life. I am new in youth ministry, but I’ve been a teacher for 6 years. There is a similar problem in school - parents are not following up with their children, and, as a result, the information is never used and therefore lost. I agree with the idea of a youth group for parents. As a mother of young children, I would love the opportunity to be part of a small group study about raising my children with Jesus as the center of their lives. So, would a “Christian Parenting” class be appropriate?
September 14th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
