Spiritual health
I am currently reading a book called Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry. This book is an excellent resource for those just starting in youth ministry because the author -
provides a complete picture of the positives and negatives of youth ministry, and
gives guidance designed to keep your youth ministry focused on God rather than focused on worldly measures of success.
I am most thankful to the author (I'd go find his name, but I'm too lazy to get off the couch this early in the morning) for his presentation of information related to number two in the list above. When I accepted my call to youth ministry last year, I was very concerned that we would get caught up in worldly measures of success and lose our focus on the Lord. I have been, and hope that I always will be, cautious about following the Lord's will for our youth ministry. I look at it this way, "the stakes (i.e., people's souls) are just too high to do anything other than to follow God's will."So, here's what I am sharing with our youth leadership team. We are going to examine God's will for our ministry and search out His goals for us. However, those goals sit underneath an umbrella of spiritual health. If we hope to accomplish anything with God, if we hope to set and achieve any goals, then we must be a spiritually healthy group. Everything we want to accomplish and all that God has for us will be unleashed when we are spiritually healthy.Okay, I looked up the author's name on the Internet. His name is Doug Fields, and he has a Web site full of resources. The address is http://www.simplyyouthministry.com.
