I've been so encouraged though our student ministry lately that I thought I'd take a few posts to talk about what I've been learning. I started participating in student ministry in high school leading worship, but I've been doing it for a living for about 5 years. I feel like I just started to figure out what works - after three years here in the Lehigh Valley.
Learn from students. It's a simple concept but how often can I humble myself to the point of being real with a student and saying "Thanks for teaching me that"? The past few weeks God's been reminding me of this concept over and over: that to lead by example is to truly lead like Christ. If I want them to learn from me, I need to learn from them.
A great example of this is our challenge to students to get out of their comfort zones and invite their friends to our events and to create dialogs with them about their following of Christ. We all have those students that latch on and get it... but when was the last time I latched on and shared my Christ-experience with one of my friends? Simple and basic, but profound. It's easy to know what to do. But often what we should be doing though is watching them go after a task and mimicking their results.
Learn from students. It's a simple concept but how often can I humble myself to the point of being real with a student and saying "Thanks for teaching me that"? The past few weeks God's been reminding me of this concept over and over: that to lead by example is to truly lead like Christ. If I want them to learn from me, I need to learn from them.
A great example of this is our challenge to students to get out of their comfort zones and invite their friends to our events and to create dialogs with them about their following of Christ. We all have those students that latch on and get it... but when was the last time I latched on and shared my Christ-experience with one of my friends? Simple and basic, but profound. It's easy to know what to do. But often what we should be doing though is watching them go after a task and mimicking their results.
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