Flashback Friday

One of the things that we are committed to here at GenToGenYM.com is bringing you information that you can read and use today. Tips and tricks that can help you kick your student ministry up a notch or two. We read several blogs everyday to make sure we are keeping current with trends and the latest information that is out there. One resource that we both read every week without fail is “Flashback Friday” on youthministry360.com ‘s website. They read all the billions and billions of blogs that are out there relating to student ministry and repost the best ones for the week on their site every Friday. We’ve also been honored a few times when they have picked one of our blogs to feature on Flashback Friday.

You should add Flashback Friday to your weekly reading, we do!

Discipleship and discipline

Yesterday I was talking to someone, and the topic of discipline came up. The more I said the word, the more I realized how close it is to the word disciple. Right away I wrote it down so I could look it up later and see if there is any similarity.

disciple: a person who is a pupil or an adherent of the doctrines of another

discipline: training to act in accordance with rules

The similarity is definitely there. I think when most people hear the word discipline, they automatically consider it to be a negative. Parents discipline their kids, teachers discipline their students, etc. It’s usually used in a negative context.

When we think of discipling our students, do we shy away from disciplining them? Are we “training” them “to act in accordance with the rules” we want them to follow? I’m talking from a Christian ministry setting, so the “rules” are the way God calls us to live.

If we’re not able to discipline our students, we’re failing as leaders. We’re not giving them the proper training to live for God and expand his kingdom. The easy thing to do is let them go about their own way of doing things and not be confrontational, but someone seeking to develop a good disciple isn’t afraid to discipline.

It’s time for a meet-up!

We’ve been writing this blog for about five months, and we’ve been involved in volunteer youth ministry for a combined five years. We would love to get together with our friend Dennis at VolunteerYouthMinistry.com and  some other volunteer youth workers in the Spring of 2012. This will not be a big, fancy conference, but it will be a great time to get together and bounce ideas off each other and get some practical take-away training. There will most likely be a small cost, but it will be just enough to cover our costs.

More details to follow, but if this sounds like something you might be interested in, click the “Contact Us” link above, or leave us a comment in the box below.