March Reading

There where a couple of sentences that really stood out to me in this chapter.
"Evangelism is not a responsiblity, but also a privilege."
"Student ministers won't graduate from their faith when they graduate from the youth ministry."
As much as these two sentences really struck me they also made me pause and wonder if I believed these concepts and also if I see this taking place amongst our youth group. I believe that we are just at the very beginning steps to these two concepts. With Impact Yankton I believe it will be a bit easier to get more into the area of evangelism for our youth. Through discipleship we will begin to help grow our student ministers.

I thought the questions where good also, it really got me thinking. I don't think that I differ much on the words to define our 5 purposes but I did have a few different ones.

• Worship- is simple and to the point and this is a term that we emphasis well with the teens so I think they are understanding this concept more.
• Ministry- "overflow" I believe is just such an awesome visual concept that it helps to relate it to ministry-mindedness.
• Evangelism- reach
• Fellowship- unify
• Discipleship- grow

Here are the grades I would give:

Evangelism: D- (I think we can improve on this with Impact Yankton)

Fellowship: C (I think we all could be stretched in this area more)

Discipleship: B- (Mentorship and Grey Area)

Ministry: C- (I agree with Annette, it's something we are learning more about)

Worship: B (I see the teens getting better at this)

I believe that there have already been inprovements in each of these areas and as we as a team become more unified we will see more of a balance across the board.