Simple Church & College Ministry
Today’s post comes from Benson Hines. In the first half of 2007, I read Simple Church, by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger, […]
Today’s post comes from Benson Hines. In the first half of 2007, I read Simple Church, by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger, […]
Updated 3/14/12 How do you handle adversity? I mean real adversity… Are you the type of leader that: curls up in the […]
Updated 3/8/12 When students lead, something magnificent happens… It’s hard to put into words what actually takes place, but it is spectacular […]
Updated 2/27/12 So in a previous post entitled, Waiting to Grow UP, I talked about the emergence of a new phase of life […]
Updated 2/17/12 Do you ever find yourself lacking in experience, or the expertise to really help someone else, or some situation that […]
Updated 2/16/12 In an age of instant this, and instant that, waiting has become a serious discipline… especially when it’s your only […]
“Some of us get the ministry of Moses. Some Joshua.” Matt Chandler This is an important reminder for me today. Or any […]
I had the chance to speak to more than 300 student leaders on campus a couple of days ago. At lunch, […]
Is it just me, or does it seem like it’s getting harder and harder to get student leaders to commit to, and follow through with, an extended leadership role? Certainly there are exceptions to this… but those students seem to be fewer and far between… and when we encounter them around campus (or within our ministries) they are unmistakable!
In our consumer-driven society (and campuses), it should come as no surprise to us that more and more students are finding it harder and harder to stay committed to one leadership role, and easier and easier to jump from one thing to the next… one leadership role to the next… And when they do, I’m not sure that they’ve given much thought to how their choices will impact the contexts and relationships that they’ve left behind.
With just a couple of days before our student leaders return to campus, I find myself thinking about the importance of the […]