There have always been other choices for kids, even if it was just staying home. The previous article I wrote had a quote from a larger post bemoaning all the other activities kids had rather than church. …and start calling them the church, the Body of Christ, the hands and feet of Jesus. Stop calling your youth group a youth group If these kids say they’re Christians, treat them as such and remind them they are not under any obligation to bring friends to Christ because you ask them to, but because they are under God’s mandate to share what Christ is doing in them with others. Ask your kids not to invite kids to a program or an event, but into a community called the Body of Christ. You have to start believing you have a youth program worth coming to that embraces the title of Church. Can you imagine a restaurant begging people to eat at it? The food should speak for itself and make people want to come. Your program is probably better than that. …and speak to their responsibilities as believers.īegging kids to bring their friends lowers the standard of the youth ministry. The first of the nine ways to revive your dying youth ministry is to change the way you and they think about youth group. That being said, let’s believe you’ve done your best and not put any extra burden upon you. I don’t know how hard you’ve tried, how much you complained versus how much action you’ve taken. Well, it’s mostly not your fault, your church probably carries most of the blame, but I can’t let you off the hook.
If you’re one of the youth pastors whose youth group is in decline, I feel for you. Yes, there are cycles, ups and downs, and seasons, but there are some that are just plain dying. Many youth ministries are in decline and dying.
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