Kids Don't Need You To Be Cool

This is hilarious. How much does your church's youth ministry resemble this?



In your church's youth ministry, what is the role of, or attitude toward:

1. the Scriptures?

2. prayer?

3. pop culture?

4. prudence?

First of all, your church's youth pastors should be...the parents! Your church's youth ministry should be one that equips parents to disciple their own children, i.e. to be godly parents.

But if you must have a youth pastor, remember that kids don't need someone just like themselves except older, nor do they want that. They need godly maturity in someone who loves them, but who loves God even more.

The church I first attended and where I first heard the gospel was Knox Presbyterian Church in Toronto. They had a youth pastor, but he was not young. He was once young. He was a soccer star in Ireland in the 1950s who came out to Canada at the invitation of Rev. William Fitch. I can't comment on the state of his ministry in the 1950s, but when he retired in the early 1980s, he was loved and admired by all the young people in the church and neighborhood. At that point, he certainly wasn't cool, but he was everything those kids needed and he led great numbers of them to Christ, and to ever greater maturity in Christ.