Your Limited Influence

One trait all students have in common is they will leave our student ministries.... Our influence is limited to a few years, and this fact must drive our ministry philosophy and actions.

From reThink by Steve Wright

Recommended Books

Lately I'm reading/using a lot of books for teaching that have been a big help. I wanted to share them with you.

• God's Big Picture - by Vaughn Roberts. Great book on taking students through the "big picture" of the Bible using the kingdom of God theme.

• The Walk - by Stephen Smallman. This is an excellent book to teach students what it means to walk with Christ, to be His disciple. I'm currently writing a student discipleship manual to go along with it (I haven't asked Smallman's permission yet - I will show it to him when I'm done). It has been awesome using it with some of our small groups. If you are interested in seeing a few of my sample lessons - shoot me an email.

• The Space Between - by Walt Mueller. Mueller's stuff and cpyu.org is golden. Great, short guide to teenagers.

• The Gospel and Personal Evangelism - by Mark Dever. Literally you can pick this book up and teach it to youth on how to evangelize.

That should keep you busy for now!