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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Priorities: Making God first

Priorities: God/Christ. Of course, but what does this mean. Just talking about God or including Christ in a youth group meditation will not do the trick. Younger youth will not make the correlation and many of the older youth will be zoned our or reacting cynically. It is in your actions that they will see Christ.
  • Pray every chance you get.
    • Even in public.
    • Encourage them to pray.
    • Do not make your prayers so theological (or pompous or rambling) that they can't follow the prayer and cannot follow your lead when they pray.
  • Use scripture ever opportunity you get.
    • Teach them good Biblical interpretation and technique.
    • Show them the Table of Contents for locating books
  • Have and give a theological basis for everything you do
    • Mission work is for God, not ourselves, not even for those we're serving
    • Gabe Campbell gave his seminar attendees an eye-opening experience by teaching us how to have fun games that have a theological interpretation. (I may describe some these games in the future but an example is the wild physical game of “Ins and Outs” as a metaphor for High School society)
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