Peanut Butter Salvation?

[Romans Road]

Please take a few minutes to read this very disturbing article about what is going on in the youth ministry program at a Christian church. It is very sad, disturbing, and disgusting.

How can we expect kids to take their religion and salvation seriously with antics like they talked about in the article? I understand that youth ministry is very challenging, but we have to make sure that the MAIN focus is on God and not fun. I'm not sayng that youth groups shouldn't be fun, but the focus should be on God.

What do you think?

folioweekly.com/documents/main092909 0001.pdf

I can't post links yet, so you will need to add the usual beginning of an url

 

[beforHim]

I want to read the article, but the link is broken.

 

[beforHim]

OK, so I was able to read the link.

I think what this is showing us is some of the worst of today's new churches, and some of the worst of the conservaive type. But also good things.

New Churches: Always boasting of lots of saved people. . .but not many at all are serious and/or remain loyal to Christ for long if at all. Also, it is very hard to see, with events which draw so much emphasis to themselves, how kids will ever remember anythign about God? or at least how it'll be first in their mind.

More conservative: Way too much bickering, me thinks, about fun stuff which kids do. I agree totally that we need to take it very seriously in order to get the actul message across, but fun and games like this don't autmatically mean this won't happen.

All in all, I agree that the emphasis seems way to much on the hype, but that doesn't mean it never works.