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Purpose Driven Youth Ministry

Doug Fields

The Power of God: Healthy youth ministries have spiritually healthy leaders.

( copying someone else’s program always led to failure…

( From hype to health.

• Recognize God’s power through personal humility

• Submit your abilities to God and allow His power to work through who you are.

• Focus on being a person of God before doing the work of God.

“No youth ministry idea or program can compete with God’s power working in and through you as he gives you a passion for students and you give him a pure heart.” (39).

Purpose:

Discovering the Five Purposes for your Youth Ministry – don’t create ‘em, discover.

Great Commandment + Great Commission…

1. Evangelism: “…growth won’t depend on an evangelistic program but will happen because of evangelistic students.” (47).

2. Worship: “…celebrating God’s presence and honoring him with our lifestyle.”

3. Fellowship: “students are known, cared for, held accountable and encouraged in their spiritual journey.”

4. Discipleship: “a lifelong process that God uses to bring us to maturity in Christ.”

5. Ministry: encouraging students to discover their gifts and put them into practice through ministry and mission opportunities.

Purpose Statement –

➢ Clarify your ministry’s existence; attract followers; minimize conflict; create personal excitement; professionalize your ministry;

How to create a purpose statement:

- Teach the YM leadership the 5 purposes

- Encourage leaders to put thoughts in writing

- Keep it simple, meaningful, action oriented, compelling.

- Gather team’s written examples and craft a sentence.

Conveying your Purpose –

“Your purpose cannot become a common purpose until people know it” (71).

- Use 5 key words over and over again; print it on your literature; teach it; challenge students to memorize it; post a banner;

- Nehemiah Principle: remind people of purposes every 26 days.

- Monitor and evaluate your statement

- Manage your time by the purposes: “How much time do I give to each of the five purposes during a given week or month?”

- Model the purposes in your life.

- Create programs to fulfill the purposes: programs are a means to an end.

Potential Audience

Identifying Students Commitments –

- One program can’t fulfill all five purposes - One program can’t target all students

5. Community Students: teenagers living within a realistic driving distance of your church – not committed to anything; purpose = evangelism.

4. Crowd Students: regular attenders of weekly worship service.

3. Congregation students: committed to small group fellowship.

2. Committed students: developing spiritual habits of Bible study, prayer, etc: discipleship.

1. Core students: discovering their spiritual giftedness and want to express it by ministering to others.

➢ Start with who you have.

➢ Express your heart louder than your hoops – circles simply express where we want to take students.

Potential audience + purpose = program

Programs

Reaching Community Students – Evangelism

“Evangelism is not a program it is a process.” (104).

1. Develop an evangelistic attitude: “Evangelism is non-negotiable” “We must have leaders who model evangelism.”

2. Continually challenge to be evangelistic: Not every student is an evangelist; every student should be evangelisitic! “We are going to grow!” “This program is not for you!”

3. Create a service students are excited to bring their friends to.

➢ Primary Program: Friendship Evangelism Challenge.

Keeping Crowd Students – Worship

“Do you have a program to which your regular students can feel comfortable inviting their community friends?” (115). Seeker Service.

• A Positive Environment: contemporary music; greeting; photographs; inviting seating…

“Ten minute rule” – environment will be ready 10 minutes before 1st student arrives.

• Element of Fun: shatter the boring stereotype for church worship; laugh!

• Student Involvement: drama, video, greeting, worship team, teaching, testimonies, role plays, games, role plays.

• Understandable message: speak to the needs of teenagers from a Biblical source – creative title; grabbing intro; simple big idea; understandable Bible passages; provide notes; specific action steps.

➢ Primary Program: Weekend Worship Services (round tables)

Nurturing Congregation Students – Fellowship

Caring for the students God entrusts you with; helping them grow in their faith through consistent, accountable relationships with believers.

- Move leaders from chaperones to shepherds (1 Thes. 2:8).

- In Small Groups we share our lives with one another: know each other; share verbally; personalize faith; encourage accountability.

- SG values: authenticity, confidentiality, safety & trust, respect & love for others.

- SG administrative choices… (146)

- SGL care and training – provide discussion questions; basic skills; new leaders.

➢ Primary Program: Area Bible Study SGs – in homes; like YG w. SGs

Preparing Committed Students -

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