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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
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