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Serving In School Is Cool

Posted on08. Feb, 2010 by Jeremy Zach.

A missional youth ministry highly values understanding (contextualization) and serving the local community. In the youth ministry world, school campuses are the life and blood of where our students spend most of their time.

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Discipleship is the New Youth Ministry Evangelism

Posted on15. Dec, 2009 by Jeremy Zach.

I am arguing that discipling students before they believe is the new youth ministry evangelism method. Youth pastors are dealing with such an unChristian and unChurched teenage population that deeply studying books of the Bible, theology, and ethical issues are what the students are needing. Teaching for 45 minutes about Levictus can now be the new cool thing to do in youth ministry. Why? Because Bible literacy and education is so removed from the teenage culture.

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5 Realities For Missional Youth Ministry: Inside/Out Evangelism

Posted on02. Dec, 2009 by Jeremy Zach.

One of the defining elements of missional youth ministry is the how the youth ministry does evangelism. There are two types of evangelism strategies:

Inside/Out– Prep, train, and educate kids and sent them out into the world to do evangelism. Basically you go a non-believer on their turf.

Outside/In– Throw events and get non-believers into your youth room. Basically you take a non-believer put him/her on your turf.

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Missional Small Group Youth Ministry

Posted on21. Oct, 2009 by Jeremy Zach.

What should bother youth pastors more?

1. Students who don’t memorize their Bible verses

2. The local needs of their community

No, you cannot say both.

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Youth Pastor Standards: Talking About The Wrath of God?

Posted on06. Aug, 2009 by Jeremy Zach.

Small Town Youth Pastor has been really loud about critiquing the fire and brimstone type of youth ministries. Thankfully, God has been doing some work on me and I am trying to develop a healthy view on how to communicate the bad news about the good news of Jesus Christ.

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