Website to Note

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Website to Note

• The Western Wall in Jerusalem
• http//www.aish.com/wallcam/Window_on_the_Wall.asp
  
• Inclusive Congregational Josh
• Preparatory Angela, Amanda
• Missional Tim
• Strategic Bill

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Do you agree or disagree?

• Leaders of a church youth ministry should not
  worry about youth in the church who are not
  interested in the youth ministry. The parents
  are responsible for the spiritual growth of their
  children, so they should work hard at getting
  their children to the youth ministry activities.

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Shepherding Touch and See
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• JH -Master teacher
• -Small group leaders
• -Took attendance in Bible Fellowship Hour
  (Sunday morning)
• HS -PT leaders were shepherds, periodic
  shepherding reports
• -Took attendance in BFH

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Gary McIntosh in One Size Doesnt Fit All, p.
98

• Church Size Pastors Needed
• 1-150 1
• 151-300 2
• 301-450 3
• Etc.

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The Tipping Pointby Malcolm Gladwell

• The tipping point is the point at which an idea
  becomes an epidemic. Characteristics
• 1.Contagiousness
• 2. Little causes that have big effects
• 3. Change that happens not gradually but at one
  dramatic moment.

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The Magic Number 150

• p. 179 the figure of 150 seems to represent the
  maximum number of individuals with whom we can
  have a genuinely social relationship, the kind of
  relationship that goes with knowing who they are
  and how they relate to us.

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Ministry Continuum

• Pre-evangelism - Evangelism -
• Follow-up - Discipleship/Teaching
• - Service/Leadership/Multiplication

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1. The goal of ministry in the body of Christ is
to equip every Christian to serve others and
exercise their gifts.

• Ephesians 411-13 11 It was he who gave some to
  be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be
  evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
  12 to prepare God's people for works of service,
  so that the body of Christ may be built up 13
  until we all reach unity in the faith and in the
  knowledge of the Son of God and become mature,
  attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of
  Christ.

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Every Christian has at least one gift

• 1 Peter 410-11 10 Each one should use whatever
  gift he has received to serve others, faithfully
  administering God's grace in its various forms.
  11 If anyone speaks, he should do it as one
  speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves,
  he should do it with the strength God provides,
  so that in all things God may be praised through
  Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power
  for ever and ever. Amen.

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S.H.A.P.E.

• Spiritual Gifts
• Heart
• Abilities
• Personality
• Experiences

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2. Leaders are a distinct group clearly
delineated in Scripture.

• Position in the local churches
• Hebrews 1317
• Obey your leaders and submit to their authority.
  They keep watch over you as men who must give an
  account. Obey them so that their work will be a
  joy, not a burden, for that would be of no
  advantage to you.

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Giftedness

• Romans 126-8
• 6 We have different gifts, according to the
  grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying,
  let him use it in proportion to his faith. 7 If
  it is serving, let him serve if it is teaching,
  let him teach 8 if it is encouraging, let him
  encourage if it is contributing to the needs of
  others, let him give generously if it is
  leadership, let him govern diligently if it is
  showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

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Tiger McLuen in The Student Leadership Training
Manual for Youth Workers pp. 14 16

• 1. Peer Ministry, or Peer Helping
• -care and listen to friends
• 2. Peer Evangelism

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• 3. Ministry Leadership Teams
• -often public forum
• -skills oriented puppet teams, music teams,
  small group leaders
• 4. Servant Teams, or Work Teams
• -tasks bulletin boards, newsletters, running
  sound, photography
• 5. Program Planning Leadership Team
• -overall leadership of the youth ministry
• -planning and decision making

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Why would you target youth as leaders?
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LEADERSHIP

• Leadership is any attempt to influence the
  behavior of another individual or group. Paul
  Kersey in The Situational Leader, p. 16
• Steve Johnson the capacity to influence others
  to bring about change

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LEADERSHIP

• Individuals not only routinely regress in times
  of stress, they also regress in group settings.
  If you do not believe this, watch a Lions Club
  meeting or college reunion. One aspect of this
  regression is the phenomenon of dependency on the
  leader.

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• It is quite remarkable. Assemble any small group
  of strangers-say a dozen or so-- and almost the
  very first thing that happens is that one or two
  of them rapidly assume the role of group leader.
  It does not happen by a rational process of group
  election it just happens naturallyspontaneously
  and unconsciously.

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• Why does it happen so quickly and easily? One
  reason, of course, is that some individuals are
  either more fit to lead than others or else
  desire to lead more than the rest. But the more
  basic reason is the converse most people would
  rather be followers.

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• More than anything else, it is probably a matter
  of laziness. It is simply easy to follow, and
  much easier to be a follower than a leader. There
  is no need to agonize over complex decisions,
  plan ahead, exercise initiative, risk
  unpopularity, or exert much courage. (p. 223)
  Scott Peck, People of the Lie

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What does a leader do?

• Makes decisions
• Plans ahead
• Exercises initiative
• Risks unpopularity
• Exerts courage

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What does a leader do?

• Serve others by meeting needs
• Love is joyously using your resources to take
  the initiative to sacrificially meet the need of
  another person because you are loved by God. 1
  John 410,11 Jeremiah 923,24 2 Corinthians
  514,15

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Westwood Youth Leadership Team1998-1999

• Nurse, married Christian man
• Female presently in Jordan desiring to work in
  Northern Africa
• Female Christian marriage, hes been a worship
  pastor
• Female Christian marriage
• Female Christian college, Christian marriage

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• Male APU, finding himself
• Female interested in missions
• Female interested in missions
• Male took leadership in college group
• Male language school, desire to reach Muslims

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• Female Serious follower of Christ
• Female SFC, soon to marry Christian man
• Male SFC, Film making
• Female missions interest, SFC
• Female school teacher, Christian marriage, youth
  ministry
• Female missionary

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• Male teacher, urban youth ministry
• Summary
• Of 25 students
• 17 serious followers of Christ
• 1 with the Lord
• 1 apostate
• 6 I dont know where they are