The Four Motions- Part One

Love Passionately

All of the motions are slight turns from normal ways of thinking about youth ministry or some aspect of it. The first, Love Passionately, deals with the motivations for evangelism/missional living. It's one thing to guilt a student into helping put on a rock concert to reach other youth with a gospel message (which you deliver by the way). It's another thing all together to have students praying for and seeking the betterment of fellow students and faculty, through service, love and honestly transparent relationship with kids who don't know the words to "Open the Eyes of My Heart". Most youth groups have problems that stem from not loving. They gossip because they do not love. They degrade because they do not love. They are apathetic because they do not love. They don't form relationships because they do not love. They look down over the nose of legalism at the "heathens" because they do not love. But the problem isn't the listology that most youth pastors feed their kids. Don't gossip or Jesus will hate you! (Okay, exaggeration). The answer is to teach them how to love.

If you want your students to make a difference. If you want them to have the heart of Christ for their school, you can't simply teach them how to use an Evangecube and call it a day. We must roll our sleeves up and do some real work, teaching our students how to love for and seek the welfare of their fellow students.

Big Idea: Getting youth to reach other youth because Christ called them to do it.
Bigger Idea: Getting youth to reach other youth because they love them.