Priorities in youth ministry: Introduction

All us have the right priorities in the right order, when we stop to think about it, but in the press of day to day youth ministry it is easy to let theology give way to the practical. The solution is to figure out how to live out, in practical ways, our theology. Here are is a possible set of priorities and some ways these can be played out. It is not essential that everybody accept this set of priorities in this order. My goal is to show how we can practically live out a theological set of priorities. We can all benefit with other followers of this blog adding to the this discussion.:

A detailed exploration of these items will follow over the next few weeks, but in summary:

1. God/Christ trumps everything.
2. The Church/Body of Christ and institutional church
3. The Youth themselves.
4. Ourselves
   Actually #2 should come in about #10 with nothing in between and our own needs, desires and opinions should come in about #50 with nothing in between...