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19. 6 Common Mistakes In Youth Ministry

Big thought:

Student ministry is one of the most meaningful and necessary components of church, yet it is often used as the guinea pig for ministers to cut their teeth with. In fact, most leaders learn their biggest mistakes in youth ministry! While no leader is perfect, we should strive to do better than the past. Youth ministry shouldn’t be looked at as a preparing stage for “real” ministry. Every soul is valuable no matter how old they are.

In today’s episode, I'm going to share with you the top 6 mistakes that I made as a youth minister. While we could spend an entire month just talking about what youth games you shouldn’t try, I’m going to focus more on the ideological mistakes that I made and why I think they should matter to you.

6 Mistakes I made in youth ministry:

1. Replacing the parent.

2. Pretending to be a youth.

3. Being too intimate.

4. Becoming their emotional savior.

5. Centering service around fun.

6. Dumbing down the message.

Take away:

1. Identify 1-3 things from this list that you are currently doing but want to change.

2. Meet with your team and ask them to share their opinion on what top 3 things would be for your youth group.

3. Out of the three most voted areas were chosen, list out 3 things that you want to start doing and 3 things that you want to stop doing in order to make real changes in your culture.

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