Solid youth ministries provide spiritual growth opportunities. Direction and encouragement in Bible study, prayer, spiritual disciplines, living in obedience to Christ, etc. are essential. Third, effective youth ministry is outwardly directed. A youth group that isn t reaching out stagnates. Finally, it is playful .
Kids hate boredom.
Laughter is second only to unadulterated agape as a source of real unity and it confronts the lie that God is some horrible cosmic Scrooge. Kids experience the presence of God as they deliberately open themselves to the Holy Spirit. Second, powerful worship . Let s face it folks, worship services rank pretty low on most teenagers scale of favorite activities, somewhere between reading the phone book and watching rocks erode. This changes under the influence of the Holy Spirit.