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“What if everyone is given a task we’re to work on and if possible complete while we’re living on this earth? What if before we are born and assigned bodies, all our souls stand up in a line in heaven, and as we get ready to come down, an angel gives us a little slip of paper that says what we have to do? Only the message is written in a language that we forget how to speak as soon as we get down here. But the message on that little piece of paper is still deep inside us, and our job is to remember, to recollect it, and then go about doing what it says.” –D.Q. in The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
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“More important, he (Cardinal John O’Connor) truly lived the old line‘Hate the sin, love the sinner.’ You can’t fully appreciate that line until you saw someone like the Cardinal, who really lived that life. Whatever his position on gay rights, he was more than active in New York’s AIDS hospices. He dedicated a major facility at one of the archdiocese’s hospitals to caring for AIDS patients, and he would visit, unannounced, to care for patients, washing them, changing their bedpans.
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“Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.” –Shane Claiborne, Becoming the Answers to Our Prayers
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“Your kids learn as much from example as they do from anything you say. When they see you live out forgiveness, it becomes so much easier for them to forgive. And when they’re struggling with it, you can walk them down a path you yourself have walked.”
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"I would like to think that when I pronounce the benediction at the end of our services, I am sending dangerous people back into their natural habitats to wreak havoc on the enemy.” –Mark Batterson, Neue Quarterly, Issue 01
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"This approach really is a great way to engage the brain. It allow the learners to show you what they are already thinking, which portions of the text connect with them, and what questions are forming in their thoughts about the scripture's context, language, and meaning. This sort of foundation can allow you as the adult to lead a much richer follow-up conversation and takes the focus off of you as the 'keeper of knowledge and right answers' (though I know many of us love playing that role!)."
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“God’s original purpose is not our salvation or the evangelization of others; it is that we glorify God by reflecting God’s image through expression of the spiritual, intelligent, creative, moral and relational capacities uniquely imprinted on humans. This creation mandate has never been rescinded.” –Dick Staub, The Culturally Savvy Christian
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“Now I am in high school where many of my friends are atheist or agnostic. Though I never bring my Bible to school or attempt to convert my fellow “heathen” peers, many of my atheist friends cannot say the same. I nervously shift in my seat when they openly criticize my religion to my face, pondering whether I should ignore their comments or defend my beliefs. (I typically go with the ladder.) By being surrounded by these kinds of comments, I too began to question my own beliefs.”
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“These kids are fantastic human beings. They have gifts to offer the world, but it’s not soccer. It’s not cheerleading. It’s compassion. It’s integrity. It’s love. Those are the things that will help kids feel good about who they are.” –Mike Linderman, “The Teen Whisperer”
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"One of the first dogmatic statements we made to our church staff and in the hiring process was that we were NOT hiring a youth pastor. That job title came with very clear ideas of what this person would do and not do. We needed to re-envision our community toward what this person would be responsible for and the vision of our church toward youth.'
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“I’ve lost my cynicism about evangelical groups partly because I’ve seen them at work abroad.” –Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times columnist, Christianity Today, July 8, 2002
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“Last year, Kenyan leader Kennedy Odede published an article in the New York Times entitled ‘Slumdog Tourism’ writing that ’slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from.
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“No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.” –Thomas Edison, requoted in Time, April 5, 2007
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The Values Driving Today’s Teens
“Our youth are not a generation of ‘haters.’ They don’t blame their parents for the problems in their own lives; rather they see technology as empowering them to make a positive impact on their world. They are much more likely to come together, on and offline, to achieve a common good than prior generations, and view social media as a major catalyst for change.”
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“Never live for those exceptional moments–they are surprises. God will give us His touches of inspiration only when He sees that we are not in danger of being led away by them. We must never consider our moments of inspiration as the standard way of life–our work is our standard.” –Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
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“Today some youth ministries are almost devoid of religious education. They are ‘holding tanks with pizza,’ as church researcher Ed Stetzer has called them. Some use violent video game parties to attract students through the church doors on Friday nights.”
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Wild Frontier Living Foundational Quote: Every other human being has no choice but to bow to their human limitations. Only believers can draw upon God’s supernatural power to live beyond their limits. –Brenda Seefeldt
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A Reminder That Beauty Comes From Pain
"Her middle name is Grace. It’s not meant to refer to the Grace of Payson. It’s a separate idea all together about hidden strength. People tend to think of Grace & associate it with Ballerinas. I think of Grace & think of the difference of living by the law vs. living by Grace. Living by Grace is SO MUCH HARDER. It takes so much more wisdom and strength."
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“Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.” –Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
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The Key to Church Growth: Allow the Youth to Lead the Church
"My graduated teens would comment: 'the faster I got to lead something in the church, the more comfortable and confident I felt putting my faith in God. I actually got to practice and test my faith.' I strongly agree that there is a correlation between church growth and youth involvement in the church."
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“Youth ministry is about holding a young person’s deepest identity until he or she is able to see it too.” –Mark Yaconelli, Contemplative Youth Ministry
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“Sometimes, we have to make a point of separating ourselves for God to get others to even notice. I hope that’s the drive behind so many young women joining U.S. convents (and not because it’s radically interesting to give up Starbucks and personalized clothing).”
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“It’s time to take the words of Romans 12 seriously, with the admonition: “Do not conform to the patterns of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Historically, the prophetic imagination has shown us that God’s people are holy troublemakers, rabble-rousers and mischief-makers. We are folks who refuse to accept the world as it is and insist on moving it closer to what it should be.” –Shane Claiborne, Reject Apathy, Issue 01
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“King of the Hill” On Attractional Youth Ministry
Do you agree or disagree with how culture sees youth ministry?
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“I have often tried to explain the idea of God as a very unsafe and wild being. What about love is safe? What about love communicates that it only likes to exist in places where comfort reigns? The love I put my hope in is wild and unpredictable. It is a love that shines into darkness. It is a light that makes itself known in the dark night of the soul and in the midst of suffering. It goes places I would never be caught in. It is in the brothel and the leper colony. It finds its way into the hearts of convicts and hardened pastors. So why would anyone ever presume that we, the body of Christ, the conduits of this love, would only be able to exist within the walls of our comfortable churches?
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“But things are different now and doubt is a luxury we can’t afford any more, Sweetie. You have more power than you realize. Don’t think, and don’t worry. If the time comes, you’ll know what to do. It’s in your blood.” –Elastigirl to her daughter as they prepare to rescue her father, Mr. Incredible
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Is this what we should do in youth ministry? “…the church will continue to push the envelope and even risk offending people because they are engaged in a fight for teenagers’ souls.”
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“Yet if someone says, ‘I want to go to Heaven to be with God forever,’ others wonder, ‘Wouldn’t that be boring?” What are we thinking? The very qualities we admire in others–every one of them–are true of God. He’s the source of everything we find fascinating. Who made Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart? Who gave them their gifts? Who created music itself and the ability to perform it?” –Randy Alcorn, Heaven
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From Relevant Dude to Spiritual Father
"Chris, a young guy in my church who moved to Manhattan for grad school, explained to me: 'The highly relevant pastor is bro'. There's certainly a place for pastors to be in tune with culture and to be relatable. But where do I find a man of God who will nurture my spiritual life? That's what's I need. Relevance is easy to find. But when I stumble in that same old sin that I keep slipping in, I need someone with wisdom and maturity to go to. It's fine if that person also happens to know about some great new indie bands, but in those moments, I need something else. I need depth.'"
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“We want something else which can hardly be put into words–to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.” –C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
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“Just as our teens are accustomed to Google, MySpace, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix acting as a mirror that reflects what users already believe, what we already read and watch, and what we already like and desire, so too in the mainline church we are guilty of allowing youth to simply define Christianity to be whatever teens (and adults) want it to be.
How often do we ever teach that there are some non-negotiables when it comes to Christian faith?
How often do we ever respectfully engage conflicting points of view that don’t fit our liberal/progressive spiritual worldview?”
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"How does it make you feel to consider that aspiring artists are looking to you and your bandmates as mentors of sorts?” His answer was, “mentors… hmmm…I always go back to 6th grade when I think about my heroes. I grew up with surf posters hanging on my walls: Curren, Slater, Occy. I watched them on TV, read about them in surfer mags, and breathed them in–every turn,every logo, every smile. Have they impacted the way I live my life today? A little, but they’re mostly just a piece of the past. But there is another type of mentor–one that stays with you. I’d like to be this type.
