5' Components of youth ministry

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5. Components of youth ministry

• For each of the following components of youth
  ministry
• Evangelism (pre-evangelism, incarnational
  ministry)
• Follow-up/discipleship/teaching/retreats/trips/eve
  nts/
• Short term missions
• Shepherding
• Service
• Leadership
• Worship/music
• Fellowship/community
• Prayer

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For each of the components articulate

• The biblical purposes (why)
• The specific activities(what)
• The role and qualifications of adults in this
  area (paid and volunteer) (who)
• The role of students in this area (who)
• The role of parents in this area (who)
• The role of local church/organizational
  leadership (who)
• The use of time, space, facilities (where, how)
• The financial demands for this area (how)
• A rationale for why you chose this particular
  strategy
• over other strategies (why)

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Developing a Model

• Biblical purposes (why you do what you do)
• Vision and Mission
• Strategy (Program, plan) determined by assessment
  of needs and resources (always informed by
  Scripture)

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Incarnational Ministry

• Living among young people to feel the pulse of
  their lives, the beat of their hearts. Borgman

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Incarnational Ministry

• Read the article by Jim Shelton and the article
  from YouthWorker Journal and answer the
  following
• 1. Is there agreement on the definition of
  incarnational ministry?
• 2. Do you agree with the assessment of the YWJ
  article that we must move beyond incarnational
  ministry philosophy?

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Incarnational Ministryby Jim Shelton

• Awesome awareness of Christs presence within us.
• Vulnerability
• Identification
• Movement

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Incarnational Ministry

• The ministry of presence

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Pre-evangelism

• The term pre-evangelism includes the concept of
  of building a relationship with a student. The
  key thought to keep in mind could be termed
  friendship in evangelism,' approaching someone as
  a total person, not as a statistic.
  Pre-evangelism creates an environment in which
  the gospel is more readily and effectively
  received.
• Adapted from The Dynamics of High School
  Discipleship Campus Crusade for Christ High
  School Ministry.
• Pre-evangelism is the obedient Christian going to
  the non-Christian to be involved in his/her life.
• Christians singing the tune of the Gospel

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Evangelism

• Evangelism is expressing what I possess in
  Christ and explaining how I came to possess it.
  In the truest sense, evangelism is displaying the
  universals of Gods characterHis love, His
  righteousness, His justice, and His faithful
  nessthrough the particulars of my everyday life.
  Therefore evangelism is not a special activity
  to be undertaken at a prescribed time. It is the
  constant and spontaneous outflow of our
  individual and corporate experience of Christ.
  Even more specifically, evangelism is what Christ
  does through the activity of His children as they
  are involved in (1) proclamation, (2) fellowship,
  and (3) service.
• Joe Aldrich, Lifestyle Evangelism, p. 29.
• Christians adding the words to the tune