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By: Ask the leadership coach » Entertainment in Youth Ministry | Youth Ministry

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By: Gideon

Gideon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:08:17 +0000

I agree with You, some time entertainment become a trap for Youth ministry. Youth leader think all that stuff become the purpose of their ministry. They Forget about the core of Youth Ministry.
I think we must put entertainment to the right place.
Entertainment just as a tool to explain or illustrate the Word of God.
But in other side In my country Indonesia many youth leader not know how to use entertainment to reach and to teach their students. example, they not know how to use Movie, game or music to illustrate their message even they have a projector or multimedia in their church. I think some youth leader have a poor knowledge of how to use digital stuff in their ministry.

By: Thom

Thom — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:25:05 +0000

Yeah, I think youth ministries think they are doing something right when lots of kids are coming. However, that’s really not the case. I am 22, and I only know two other people from my youth group who are still in church because everyone was going for social hour. They never truly learned how to follow Christ. Many of them went to summer camp (with all the smoke and lights), and were “saved”. But where are they now? They are out with the rest of the world. I would rather have a youth group of 10, where they are learning to become better disciples of Christ and growing deep roots and being challenged in their views, than a youth group of 50 where maybe 2 of them become true disciples of Christ and stay faithful in college. Obviously, the ideal would be to have a huge group where every student is being discipled into a true, deep relationship with Christ. But that just doesn’t always happen.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with having fun, it’s good and healthy to have fun. But we shouldn’t keep things light and shallow to keep them “fun”. It’s like we try to shield them from the reality of the hard things of faith. Hmm… and the idea of giving away an xbox is a little weird to me. I’ve always gone to smaller churches which don’t have much money. And my dad is a pastor of a mid-size struggling church. I just think that money could be used for something more productive like helping another church in need (unless it was donated by someone who doesn’t want it anymore).