http://www.markgungorshow.com/show/604 All issues concerning life, love and marriage. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:41:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.markgungorshow.com/show/604#comment-1012 Lantz Howard Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:09:24 +0000 http://www.markgungorshow.com/?p=604#comment-1012 Thanks for touching on the subject of youth ministry and the major possibility that the system is broken. I can relate way to much when you start to change a system how much resistance there is to continue to do the same ole thing despite the lack or results. It seems that many parents do not want their kids to grow up and we as the church have become enablers within the system. I have been working towards more of an intergenerational youth ministry the last two years and have been met with much opposition. However, I continue to move forward knowing that parents are the key spiritual leaders within a child's life not a youth minister. As North American Christians we have bought into the notion that if I pay someone to do it for me it will get done. Therefore, we pay for somebody to do almost everything for us. Like an old professor once said, "Do it to me, do it for me, but don't make me do it." I guess I need to work on my book manifesto about this subject. Thanks! Thanks for touching on the subject of youth ministry and the major possibility that the system is broken. I can relate way to much when you start to change a system how much resistance there is to continue to do the same ole thing despite the lack or results. It seems that many parents do not want their kids to grow up and we as the church have become enablers within the system. I have been working towards more of an intergenerational youth ministry the last two years and have been met with much opposition. However, I continue to move forward knowing that parents are the key spiritual leaders within a child’s life not a youth minister. As North American Christians we have bought into the notion that if I pay someone to do it for me it will get done. Therefore, we pay for somebody to do almost everything for us. Like an old professor once said, “Do it to me, do it for me, but don’t make me do it.” I guess I need to work on my book manifesto about this subject. Thanks!

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