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Fulton Street Youth Track
By Jeremy | September 23, 2007
Session 1 2020 Vision for Schools Presented by yours truly on behalf of the Coalition with discussion facilitated by Walter Sotelo
More on this to come.Session 2 Double Vision Presented by Ron Luce
Vision to ignite the local church. Capture the hearts of the pastors to equip the youth pastors to get the kids. + Fall 1986 – TM started doing youth rallies. Called every church they could find. 40 hang-ups for every one invitation to send a flier; even fewer invitations to speak. + 1991 – TM started Acquire the Fire regional events in large churches to leverage time to reach more kids. Then theaters and arenas + 35-37 ATF events in arenas nationwide every year + Became frustrated and vexed from the data. Birthed the BattleCry book. Here’s the data: Luke 12:54 – Discern the times, not just the weather. Remember what happened to the national psyche when Hurricane Katrina happened? Anticipation; urgency; enduring the storm; then the aftermath and the chaos of a disorganized response. Virtually no rescue for 3 days. The church needs to be the hospital for a broken generation. Instead, we’re fumbling like the nation did in the first three days. Currently, there are FOUR vectors pointing to a cultural Katrina: 1) Only 4% of teens are "Bible-believing Christians" + There are more teens than ever before. More millenials than any other current US generation. + What they are is what America will become. + 65% of WWI generation is Bible-believing Christians. Only 4% of Millenials + 1989 – most Millenial babies born that year. Most people come to Christ before age 21. Kids born in 1989 are 19ish. 4-5 years before the bulk of this generation will be 21, 4-5 years to reach them. + We are in youth ministry during this strategic moment. We have 5 years to turn around the 96%. Now is our moment. 2) First time media saturation Bypasses the home, schools, and communities 3) The sexualization of culture Have we gotten used to the dark? 6+ sexual innuendos during 8-9pm television ParentsTV.org RAND corporation “Virtue Terrorists†– terrorizing purity of kids to make money 4) Point and click pornography 12-17 year olds are the largest consumers of pornography online BattleCry isn’t "too militaristic," as critics contend. There's a need to simply describe what kids confront, and empower them to develop a backbone to stand up to the crisis. What are we going to do? We must do something. How big our events are don’t matter if we’re losing a generation. Our culture has pervaded the globe. What happened to exporting the gospel? Instead we’re exporting cultural poison The Battle Plan Every organization is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. The church is perfectly designed to get 4% The chronic issues: + Pastors are disengaged + The people that run MTV are not cool. They’re smart, but not cool. They’re strategists who hire cool people. + Disinterested lay people + Abdicated culture war + Parents uninvolved + Insufficient financing + Inadequate youth pastor training + Type of Christianity preached What can be done at the local church? + Battle Cry beats the drum to raise awareness + If CNN covers it, it generates credibility with senior pastors + CNN’s God’s Warriors show didn’t butcher BC + Still the problem feels insurmountable + The heart of the plan: GOAL: 100K churches fully engaged in doubling and discipling their youth group every year + It’s idealistic and ambitious, but every revival starts that way. + Youth pastor training and tools to engage pastors 1) Dream it! + Where we start: What is God’s dream for your youth ministry? + If JC became youth pastor at your church for 12 months, what would it look like? + Dream a little bit. You are his hands and feet. + Joel 2: Sons and daughters will prophesy and old men will dream dreams. + If we don’t dream for them, Kanye and 50 Cent will dream for them. + We want quantity and quality. + God’s a dreamer and he created us to dream. We have his DNA 2) Plan it! + Expanding our tent pegs (Jack Hayford) is planning + Before I formed you in the womb, I set you apart. JC slain before the foundation of the world + How do you refine it? Questions: • How much will it cost? • What will it take? Room, teens, volunteers, lights, logo, artwork, brochures, etc • Cast vision – hooks for people to bite – “What can I do to help?†• How do I track it and measure success? 3) Build it! + The leader is the orchestra conductor. + Learn how to delegate and define job descriptions and hold people accountable, etc + Communicate with team and market + Assess and redefine our job descriptions + Revolution Youth Ministry (book) captures TM’s leadership principles + Even a bad plan is better than no plan. Youth pastors have been bypassed in area of leadership development. Edwin Pacheco’s testimony of Double Vision + Workshopped each DVD with his team + Added 60 youth within 20 monthsTopics: 2020 vision, adopt-a-school, coalition, culture, fulton street revival, ron luce, youth ministry, youth track | No Comments »
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