Your part in the solution
In
our Christian culture today, we have become, for the most
part, observers. We would rather pay professionals (staff
pastors) and have them preach, teach, lead, counsel, and
conduct all manner of ministry, while we sit in our chairs
or pews and observe and receive teaching and then comfortably
go home. Of particular concern
is the approach many parents have toward their teenagers.
Here are words from one former youth pastor:
"Something
that always bugged me as a youth pastor was when the parents
of a group of kids would come to me and say, almost literally,
'would you just take my kid and shape them spiritually
for 2 hours a week, I don't have time for that crap at home.'
I was broken hearted by those kinds of people."
