It is amazing to me how dumb adults can be sometimes. Speaking as an adult, I can attest to this personally. But this is perhaps no more obvious than when adults try to engage in "youth ministry." Youth ministry, of course, means figuring out anything that we adults can do to keep young people in church and connected to Christ. Here are a few dumb things that adults often believe when it comes to youth and the church:
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Numbers matter. The only way that youth ministry is effective is if it is huge. Nowhere in the Scriptures is there anything about the Word of God being bound by or limited based on the number of people hearing it. It’s simply not true. Like a good basketball team, improvement comes not from focusing on the numbers, but on the fundamentals of the game. We are called to be faithful, not to reach some arbitrary number.This is why there are seven "Five Dumb Things Adults Believe About Youth."
By Rev.Todd Peperkorn
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Dumb Things Adults Believe About Youth
