With so many things going on it may be a surprise for me to say that that busy-ness is not a good measure of effective youth and children’s work. I do think that we should be filling our time profitably and that God can use our hard work. But there is a danger in moving from delivering one event into immediately planning for the next.
The danger is that we lose sight of our goal of evangelising and discipling young people and children for Christ. We can be so caught up with putting things on that we forget about the people we are doing it for. The truth is that the best youth ministry is done quietly and personally. It’s the weekly one-2-one Bible study, faithful personal prayer and the carefully prepared Bible talk.
Jesus said “Go and make disciples of all nations” not “Go and put on events in all nations”. Please pray that we would be faithful and effective in obeying his command.
Roger Fawcett
April 2008