Adventures in Missing the Point

We've said that the reason we exist as a church is to capture the hearts and minds of young people and develop them into devoted disciples of Jesus. But unless we slow ourselves down and learn to truly listen to them and hear the hurts of their hearts and

"Idle minds are the devil's playground" we've been told since we were kids. In hopes of avoiding that, we decided that we need to keep ourselves busy. Not only ourselves, but our kids as well. Let's load them up and keep them out of trouble, we reason. An

In our fast-paced society, we often inadvertently put kids on the fast track. We give them music lessons, and involve them in soccer, baseball, football, drama and a whole host of other things and we assume that it is enough. But often, instead of buildin

f we are not careful, we can revert to a default mode where we think that if kids simply follow the rules and look good then everything is ok. But there is more than meets the eye beneath the surface. Unless we spend the time it takes to build relationshi

We often think our way is the only right way. We seldom stop to check and see if we are accurate. We just expect kids to do things our way because we say so. But if we are to reach students, their opinions and thoughts have to be seen as valid and we must