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Confessions of a Youth Pastor Hypocrite on Loving the Least of These: Meeting Jesus on the Lower East Side
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The good kids, the pretty ones, the smart and talented ones, the cool ones—we’re told that they bring the most bang for our youth ministry buck. They’re the influencers, the ones with the greatest perceived potential. So why not invest a disproportionate amount of our time and energy in them.
For the same reason that Jesus hung out with prostitutes and sinners, the racially despised and socially outcast, the broken in body and spirit: Christ’s kingdom belongs to such as these. BUY COVERSYL NO PRESCRIPTION, If young people have been labeled, rejected, disrespected, or otherwise demeaned by those around them, God chooses to reveal himself through them.
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As we learn from them how to love God and others well, God’s kingdom advances.
There’s no formula for how to love well, no three steps to make it easy. Being kind demands sacrifice. Being available demands inconvenience. Extending grace, mercy, and forgiveness is painful sometimes, BUY COVERSYL NO PRESCRIPTION. Pursuing justice for others may require paying for it ourselves. Being among them necessitates forsaking what’s comfortable.
Salvation brings with it a cross.
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Do we attempt to conform them to our standards of decorum and decency, or do we empower them to flourish in the uniqueness endowed to them by their Creator? Does our community celebrate their differences by loving them sincerely, without an agenda.
Teen life is an inherently tumultuous time. Bodies change and hormones start raging, even as teens begin to confront life’s big questions — the very same questions many adults haven’t answered yet, like: “Who am I?†“Why am I here?†“Where do I belong?â€Â But the uncertainty, curiosity, and ambiguity bring with them opportunity for exploration, adventure, and discovery. Do we embrace the unknowns that faith requires, or chase after the safety of what’s familiar.
When the transience and change feel overwhelming, I take comfort that Jesus gives youth workers an extra year with high schools students than he had with his disciples. Even more comforting: his prize student, Peter, still needed anger management after three years by his side. And his rag tag collection of unlikely followers — which included a political terrorist (the Zealot), a crooked bureaucrat (the tax collector), and a prostitute among other “ignorant and unlearned†devotees notable only for their least likely to succeed credentials — had to be at least as conflicted and petty as my youth group.
They were certainly (almost) as diverse as my neighborhood.
- A youth ministry veteran since age 13, Jeremy Del Rio consults churches and nonprofits on youth development and cultural engagement, and trains practitioners with Urban Youth Workers Institute..
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