Ministering to youth and children calls for a number of gifts but one of the most important is your memory. We must remember what it was like to be young...how differently we saw the world when we were children ourselves. Much of the world was black and white, good or bad. Most judgements were easy...would we get in trouble, with parents, teachers, neighbors? Would it hurt someone else's feelings? Did it feel wrong?
Think about how much change occurred in the first 18 years of your life and recall how adults saw as insignificant something you thought was of earth shattering importance. The key to youth ministry is to embrace the awkwardness of 13, the "I-know-everything" of 18 and the idealism of 21 while maintaining who you are now. It still in there, just pull it out and dust it off...you've been there too.
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