Youth Ministry Quote by Sarah Arthur

“confirmation is one of the most important and serendipitous storytelling opportunities we in youth ministry will ever have.”

— Sarah Arthur

“As young people contribute to the faith community, their competence as members of that community grows; it is in doing the work of ministry…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“Youth leaders, are you holding aloft our standards, or have you compromised them for the lowest common denominator in order to appease the deceived…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Christian, I’ve long held the belief that you never really had an adolescence—emotionally speaking.”

— E.L. James

“Youth is a clearer witness to the world.”

— Anthony Lane

“This faulty model places the professional minister at the center and makes gaining and retaining students the goal. In the case of student ministry,…

— Timothy Paul Jones

“Looking closely at what these young people believe, one discovers that they have evidently never been taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. The absence…

— D.A. Carson

“Mark DeVries observed that the church had become the place where teenagers “are most segregated from the world of adults.”2 Churches had unwittingly cultivated…

— Duffy Robbins

The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of…

— Doug Fields

“Up until I was thirty years old I was your standard issue Christian- the kind christian schools and churches in our town pounded out…

— Clare De Graaf

“Kenda Creasy Dean observed, “The National Study of Youth and Religion reveals a theological fault line running underneath American churches: an adherence to a…

— Alvin L Reid

“Ministry is not about helping these kids be better Christians; it is about helping them be what God created them to be-human. And it…

— Andrew Root