OK, I thought this was funny. If you don’t get it here is the original that this is mocking.

A few weeks ago I mentioned something our youth ministry does over the summer. We hire a group of high school students to run our children’s ministry outreach program. Here’s a highlight video they showed in church at the end of their experience.

I’m so thankful for the impact these students had on our community! Of course, they didn’t do it alone. The whole staff of Harbor was fully engaged as well as a big crew of adults from the church as well as some other missionaries from InterVarsity’s urban project.

Oh. Ouch. This is close to home.

And really funny.

If you are ever near the YS offices in El Cajon. Drop by and we’ll grab a street taco at Rodeos.

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My view of discipleship has radically changed in the last two years. I’m increasingly convinced that my role as a shepherd to high schoolers is about putting them in moments of spiritual crisis so that they recognize that they need to learn more from God’s Word.

This is in stark contrast to my previous model. Before I spent way too much time preparing them to do ministry and giving them information that just didn’t seem relevant to their walk with Jesus yet. The more I turn that upside down, putting them in situations where they know they need to learn more, the faster they grow up. When you couple that with my desire to see students take greater responsibility for themselves earlier in life… you start to see a new view of what we used to call a “description of a discipled person.”

As more time goes on I see my role in disciple-making less as a manager of a program and more as a curator of the spiritual life. (see Richard Dunn’s pacing concept in Shaping the Spiritual Life of Students for that concept.)

Here are the three links mentioned in the video:

I’d love your feedback and thoughts as I work this out in my life and ministry.

Say no to drugs, kids.

Cool accident and all. But man, where can I get one of those? Here’s the apparent owner.

Two thoughts.

• It doesn’t surprise me that much that North Korea has television. But someone actually got something up on YouTube? That’s a miracle.
• Maybe I’m just mean-spirited. But makes me think Michael Jackson would have asked this kid to visit the ranch.

Love it.