Wednesday, March 25, 2009

7 Things for a Better Children and Youth Ministry - 3 - Program vs. Relationship

So if relationships are the key to ministry why would we even bother running a program. Why don’t we hang out with young people like we do all our other friends?

Well simply because that doesn’t happen naturally for most of us. The reason we have programs is so that we can have a place where we can develop relationships a place where we can share ourselves and the gospel with Young people.

It is important to remember that relationships change and grow as they develop therefore the programs we run will need to grow and change as well.

No matter how well a program has been running if the people that program was designed to serve now have different needs then that program will need to change.

it is really important never to run a program at the expense of relationships, no matter how great that program once was.

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