Hiring a Youth Pastor...

[FSSL]

Izdaari... That is where I am thinking. We have a seminary close to us and I prefer a late student, if not graduate.

It wasn't until I was nearly finished with seminary that I began to have a good grasp on what it takes to disciple a group.

 

[BALAAM]

Let's get away from the party kid who wants to say Jesus sometimes youth minister.

Give me a fellow who understands the Bible and has the giftedness to be able to teach it off the cuff in casual conversation and through well prepared lessons.  Let him have the ability to listen without freaking out, to apply the Bible to the life.  Let him be Socratic in his methods to help the teen discover truth rather than forcing the digestion of truth.

And he can't be someone who uses the word 'socratic'!

 

[Binaca Chugger]

... our associate pastor has been over that ministry AND our contemporary ministry....

Well, there is your problem, right there in bold!
;D

Lol... It took way too long for someone to catch that!

I thought you were serious. Look in any phone book, even some of the fundamental churches have a contemporary or modern worship service listed.

The ones that want to honor Christ don't!

;D

 

[Binaca Chugger]

Let's get away from the party kid who wants to say Jesus sometimes youth minister.

Give me a fellow who understands the Bible and has the giftedness to be able to teach it off the cuff in casual conversation and through well prepared lessons.  Let him have the ability to listen without freaking out, to apply the Bible to the life.  Let him be Socratic in his methods to help the teen discover truth rather than forcing the digestion of truth.

Dave Hyles had some of those plus some you didn't list but the last one not so much. He also had a number of  bad habits. Can we list Godly as a required trait and how about humble as well? I would also add leads by example.

Good point.  Let's go ahead then and add that he should not be a sex addict, porn addict, teen rapist.

 

[Binaca Chugger]

I thought you were serious. Look in any phone book, even some of the fundamental churches have a contemporary or modern worship service listed.

I was serious. I just threw that detail in for fun.

And I just to chide you for it! 

It was foreordained before the foundations of the world that I should.

 

[FSSL]

... Follow your destiny, you must! Lol