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Question for the Community: Online Spiritual Gifts Assessment

Does anyone know of an online spiritual gifts test for 8th grade students?

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Question for the Community: Apathy

After reading PDYM, I tried to make our existing programs steps toward spiritual maturity. Wednesday nights served as the crowd service, and Sunday School was to serve as the next step for the committed. However, the students who came to Sunday School were not committed, but forced to come. It is hard to have a Bible study when students didn’t bring their Bibles, nor cared about growing. So it's almost like another crowd program…

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Episode 178 - It Ends Abruptly

The red light wasn’t on for the last 2 minutes of the show, but you would have tuned out long before that anyhow. Unless you’re interested in youth ministry wisdom about volunteers, small group leaders showing up only periodically, and the spouse’s role in the ministry. Do you not have enough volunteers? That’s a good problem, but still a problem…

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Question for the Community: Restructuring Pains

I’m in a situation where my pastor has restructured me under another pastor on our staff. I love this guy but I am trying to deal with my senior pastor's move away from a connection with me and the student ministry. Another issue is that the senior pastor is still evaluating me with little knowledge of the ministry…

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Question for the Community: A Follow Up Process

God has given me a burden to reach our unchurched students with the gospel. We currently have around 100 students that are normal participants in our ministry, but to see “each one reach one” is the vision. I’d love to see 100 students come to a salvation relationship with Jesus through our student ministry, but there are some bottlenecks that I face for thorough discipleship after a decision is made…

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Question for the Community: Providing Incentives to Come to Church

I am a youth pastor and was at the high school meeting my students when a youth pastor from the city came over to the low income teens. He proceeded to pull out a wad of money started handing out one dollar bills like it was candy to students. What are your opinions on this practice? Is this the right way to bring them into the church? I have been working hard to build relationships that have meaning with these students. I just feel like it was a slap in the face to many of these low income students…

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Episode 177 - The Youth Ministry Embargo

This week the whole gang takes on a lot of your youth ministry questions. What do you do when there’s a new senior pastor that arrives to the church when you’re already on staff? How do you show grace but still effectively discipline your students? Didn’t Doug rewrite PDYM – where is that at? And a fun question about competition between campuses of a multi-site church youth ministry.

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Question for the Community: Curriculum Ideas

I teach a Jr…

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Question for the Community: Ministering to Hurting Teens

How would you deal with and minister to students who have the following issues or issue? Drug habits, been in jail, previously pregnant, etc. I feel there are more and more teens who fall into this category and I need to learn how to better minister to them without hurting or setting the others back.

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Episode 176 - The Hardest Working YP in America

WARNING: this episode is cut short because the tape ran out. So sorry about that... again. Before the abrupt ending, the gang dispenses wisdom (Matt), contributes some genuinely good insights (Katie), looks younger than ever (Doug), and takes a lot of shots (Josh). What else is new? They take on a whole pile of questions in one of the best shows of 2012. Which isn't saying too much since this is like the 2nd in the new year, but still…

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