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| By Karissa Miller and Mark Horst This is an imaginary conversation between a Mennonite youth pastor (Eric) and a youth (Emily) who has recently moved into the community and has been attending their youth group. Emily: Hey Eric, I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute. Eric: Yea, sure. What’s up? Emily: I was just wandering a little bit about why we do what we do in youth group. In my old youth group, we just hung out and ate pizza. Eric: Well, that is an interesting question. Actually, the reason that we are doing what we are doing is because our leadership staff talked about what the goal for our youth ministry should be and we came up with some main beliefs that we wanted our ministry to reflect. It is important to us that we use deliberate theology, which is when you actually think about what you believe and in this case, plan your programs to reflect it. Emily: Why did you have to decide as a group—aren’t you the youth pastor? Eric: As Anabaptists we believe that when we make a big decision no one person can make a perfect choice. We need to work together as a group, pray about it, and search in the Bible for what is best. One person can’t do it alone. Also, if we work together, the people involved are able to feel ownership in the decision. Usually when people feel ownership of some part of our group, they are more loyal to it. Emily: But what happens when you try to decide as a group, but the group is still split? Eric: That’s a good question. Sometimes we don’t agree; even when we try to work together as a group. Continued... |
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