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| Preaching to groups instead of individuals has its advantages. You can get more youth involved in the youth group and thinking about God. You might get more kids coming back because their friends are doing it and they don’t want to be left out. Groups of youth can generate more enthusiasm, and that makes your job as a youth leader easier and more fun. Postmoderns don’t believe that there is only one way to faith. They don’t want a one, two, three step process on how to be a Christian. They believe that faith is an ongoing process. Postmoderns understand that no one is perfect and that no one can follow a one, two, three step process. They believe that it is okay to doubt what you know and what belief you have. As youth leaders, we need to live in a way that shows that we are people of God. Showing how we live our lives is the best way to show how they need to live theirs. Postmoderns don’t always need to reason their way into believing; they can behave their way into believing. For postmoderns, doing is believing. If they are able to do something enough, than they will believe that what they are doing is right. They will eventually want to do a little bit more after a while. They will jump in and become a bigger part of the church. After getting that feeling of knowledge, they will want to know more. They will dig deeper and will want to learn more about God. With postmoderns, you need to make sure that you aren’t trying to give them answers that are too simplistic. They believe that you can’t put God under a microscope. They think that God is too mysterious for that and that God is too complicated for us to fully understand. Give them something to think about. Challenge them. You can give them something that will challenge the way they’ve been previously thinking without turning them off. If you give them something that is too much by rule, or is structured by propositional truth statements, they won’t think that is real. It is too much “one way of thinking” and they won’t listen to you. Continued... |
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