I will try my best to explain who God is as He has revealed Himself in Scripture, as the one true, living, and Trinitarian God. Remember the goal of REYouthPastor.com is to tackle deep theological topics so youth pastors can understand them and communicate them to their students.

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.

During the last week of Jesus, I lead my youth ministry through the Gospel of Mark while watching segments of the Passion of the Christ. Simply by reading the last week of Jesus' life while simultaneously watching it, helps teenagers to visualize and contextualize what Jesus went through. This exercise produces a high experiential and learning environment. If you need a different and highly visual activity to remember what Christ done for us, feel free to download by clicking the Last Week of Jesus Experience picture.

I don't think youth ministries department need to ONLY focus on being a place of behavior modification. The teachings of Jesus are pretty deep and require more than NOT just drinking and having sex. If we (youth pastors) can nail down the identity part, students will start to love who they are becoming and will not feel tempted to have sex or to drink. Generally the sinful acts for a teenager are linked to them wanting to be accepted and valued. So if we can convinced them they are already accepted and valued, than they will not need condoms and a bottle of captain morgan.

Students at some point will pick your knowledge regarding Heaven. Some of their questions may include: Will we still be  married in heaven? We will have physical bodies in heaven? Is heaven really a “place” outside of time and space?  Was Jesus’ message solely about Heaven?   The problem: The Scriptures paint such a limited [...]