back to the basics

The next few Wednesday nights we will be heading back to the basics... "we need to get back to the basics of life"... All of the sudden I'm taken back to when I was in middles school. By the way the quote up there is from a 4him song, i think?... Anyway... We have our first annual influx of 6th graders into our ministry which started this past Sunday. So this first wednesday we are focusing on a relationship with Jesus... "Salvation" it should be a great way to begin the school year.

Some basics to middle school ministry:

- allowing students to experience freedom in a controlled environment. (by controlled environment I mean that we have our finger on what the results are going to be, and can stop and regroup as things develop)
- challenging students beyond others and their own expectations. Making sure that they know that they can do God sized things even as a middle school student.
- pushing them to have ownership to their faith. (it isn't the event that led them to a desicion, it was the Holy Spirit working in their lives) I don't want our students to be addicted to our Middle School Ministry events, I want them to be addicted to God working in their lives.
- There are a lot more basics than I have time to write...


Why don't you think about it and add some comments to add to my list...

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