Comments on: Deep and Wide Youth Ministry

By: James

James — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:16:20 +0000

Many people would agree that the song is very catchy and you end up humming it all day long. Very few people know of any scriptural reference to back up the song. Someone recently called it a useless, meaningless song that shouldn’t be sung. Someone else responded that the spiritual reality behind this song can be found in Ephesians 3:17-19. Now you can hum that corny little childrens song all day long and know the Biblical scripture behind it.

By: WhiteShadow

WhiteShadow — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:40:43 +0000

I’m a home schooled junior and I just moved to a new (very small) town. The church here has no youth group or youth services at all, and though I am more comfortable standing in the back on most occasions, I feel like this might be God’s way of pushing me forward in taking responsiblity and witnessing more. I’ve prayed about it a lot, and it seems that God wants me to take a step forward, but the thing is, i have no idea where to start. I don’t have friends here yet, and I’m pretty shy.
I’ve read your book Dare 2 Share and really loved it, but since I’m home schooled and don’t have many friends (or oppertunities to meet people randomly, because this is a tiny town where the kids stick mostly to school/home), I find a lot of sugguestions given to me to be irrelivent or unrealistic to my situation.
Nontheless, I know I won’t be able to fulfill the longing I feel for fellowship with other Christians until I do something about staring a youth missions group/ youth group and getting others excited about serving.
But I’m not sure where to start. Any ideas?

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:08:19 +0000

Hey Greg,
I appreciate this model very much and your emphasis here on getting our kids to grow deep. I am passionate about this. Christian youth need to know the Word, but I’m afraid in too many cases it’s more the “flavor of the month candy coated curriculum. The better they know God’s Word the better they will be at “shreddin the gnar” and going wide with the gospel. Dare2Share is making a big impact on a lot of youth and youth pastors. I hope they are getting as excited about growing deep as they are about going wide. Thanks.

By: allpraiseJC

allpraiseJC — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:14:11 +0000

thanks for the time and story-sharing tonight. I thank my God that He had us run into you, to God be the glory.

Joshua 5, I looked it up. “So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him “What does my Lord say to His servant?” Then the commander of the LORD’s army said to Joshua “Take your sandal off your foot for the place where you stand is holy.” and Joshua did so.

Let us always fall on our face and worship. As your friend was arriving, I was just going to share how just this morning God had me share at FCA regarding all of the times in the Scripture God says, “for the sake of My NAME.” Look it up, it’s so cool how many times it shows up. And what I heard you saying was that it’s not about D2S, it’s not about the conferences, it’s about the sake of His Name – the Name of Jesus – and I couldn’t agree more. It’s cool that God brought me all these states away from MD, and 12 hours gone by to hear the Spirit cause you to talk about the same things that were on my heart and mouth this morning. Thank You Lord.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:02:27 +0000

I downloaded the full version last week before the Denver Conference and have been reading it since. Taking it in slowly and even journaling about. I’m really enjoying this revised version and how you state from the beginning that “with the help of the Holy Spirit, parents, adult sponsors and others.” I think when it comes to the spiritual growth of our students and ourselves we forget to include the Holy Spirit. I have asked the youth workers in our Infuse YWN to download the 16 page version and read over it so we can discuss it at our next network meeting in January.