Comments on: Discipleship Dilemma in Youth Ministry http://www.backyardmissionary.com/2006/03/discipleship-dilemma-in-youth-ministry.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:43:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Toelie Barkhuizen http://www.backyardmissionary.com/2006/03/discipleship-dilemma-in-youth-ministry.html/comment-page-1#comment-149884 Toelie Barkhuizen Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:03:49 +0000 http://www.backyardmissionary.com/2006/03/discipleship-dilemma-in-youth-ministry.html#comment-149884 I think we do not set the bar high enough... If we do not USE them - as part of the workers being sent out into the world, they will not stay. If we help them to discover their calling, identity, task, potential, responsiblity and help them to LIVE out their faith, we are only keeping them busy with nice things. When being involved, really DOING what they are called to do becomes a lifestyle, they will stay. I think we do not set the bar high enough… If we do not USE them – as part of the workers being sent out into the world, they will not stay. If we help them to discover their calling, identity, task, potential, responsiblity and help them to LIVE out their faith, we are only keeping them busy with nice things. When being involved, really DOING what they are called to do becomes a lifestyle, they will stay.

]]> By: Gavin http://www.backyardmissionary.com/2006/03/discipleship-dilemma-in-youth-ministry.html/comment-page-1#comment-110463 Gavin Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:50:39 +0000 http://www.backyardmissionary.com/2006/03/discipleship-dilemma-in-youth-ministry.html#comment-110463 I would like to know more about the question * Are teens really responding to the gospel? If so what gospel would that be? what the young people and adults are responding to must be something weak because I don't always see a life change. in many churches a Christian is exactly the same as a person who is not a Christian I asked some teens the question "What was life like before you became a Christian and after" they said there was no difference. Thats not what should happen! the more I grow the more I relise my life needs to change I have to make myself more vunrable to the way that Jesus was. And it scares me being a Christian is challenging! yet I don't see that in others. I would like to know more about the question
* Are teens really responding to the gospel? If so what gospel would that be?

what the young people and adults are responding to must be something weak because I don’t always see a life change. in many churches a Christian is exactly the same as a person who is not a Christian
I asked some teens the question “What was life like before you became a Christian and after” they said there was no difference. Thats not what should happen! the more I grow the more I relise my life needs to change I have to make myself more vunrable to the way that Jesus was.
And it scares me being a Christian is challenging! yet I don’t see that in others.

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