A program built on a personality falls quickly when that personality is no longer around to prop it up. We should not be doing youth ministry to attract moths. World s Dana Carvey to come give his testimony at youth group. The key word here is involvement . Other programs aim their student involvement toward outreach.
Students do something.
Because the Involvement model doesn t adequately attend to nurture and discipleship, we occasionally end up sending out half-filled Christians who are trying to overflow. Students especially in leadership often make the mistake of thinking that mere involvement is the same as a vital relationship with the living God. That s not only wrong, it s exploitative. Otherwise well-adjusted adults wore beads and medallions, talked groovy, and dressed in bell bottoms and Nehru jackets. Not a pretty picture.