Sustainable Youth Ministry Why Most Youth Ministry Doesn’t Last and What Your Church Can Do About It

Abstract

A Roll of the Dice Exposing Today’s Most Popular Youth Ministry Model To live through an impossible situation, you don’t need the reflexes of a Grand Prix driver, the muscles of Hercules, the mind of Einstein. You simply need to know what to do. Anthony Greenbank, The Book of Survival My friend who owns the coffee shops told us, in a tone of kindness and truth, that nobody he knows who is successful gambles; rather they work hard, they accept the facts of reality, they enjoy life as it is. “But the facts really stink,” I told him. “Reality is like a fine wine,” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.” Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What Over lunch at a restaurant in his college town, the twenty-year-old graduate of our youth ministry let me in on his dirty little secret.