Do you want to spark a Gospel Advancing movement in your youth group?
One great way to kick start a new (or renewed) focus on advancing the gospel is to take a few of your core students to some sort of catalytic event this coming summer that will kindle their passion to make a difference for the Kingdom. This could be a summer camp, retreat, an evangelism-focused service project, a mission trip or a faith-sharing training event like Dare 2 Shareās Lead THE Cause (LTC).
If you can get even a small portion of your group excited about Gospel Advancement, it can dramatically change the dynamic for the rest of your group. When just a small percentage of students get fired up about something, their enthusiasm quickly spreads, fanning the small ember into a fiery flame that takes on a life of its own as it stirs others to join in and rally around a shared cause.
The recent student-led movement for stricter gun control measures known as #Never Again is a powerful example of this very principle. The young survivors of the February 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, have channeled their personal pain and outrage into a teen-led effort to rally other teenagers around their cause. The success of their March for Our Lives event serves as a real world example of what motivated, impassioned teenagers are capable of doing for the sake of a cause they believe in.
The goal of your catalytic event should be to cultivate evangelism leadership skills that will energize and enable both you and your students to be powerful change agents for Jesus for the rest of your lives. So choose an event that will help you build a power plant that will go on and on generating the kind of power your group needs to launch and sustain a student-led Gospel Advancing movement in your community.
If you already have some sort of catalytic event planned for your teenagers for this coming summer, great! Capitalize on it so that it yields long term, life-changing results! If you donāt have a catalytic event in the works yet, pray about it, do your research and move mountains so that at least 10% of your students will have the opportunity to have their small ember of passion for making a difference for the Kingdom fanned into a roaring flame.
Lives depend upon it.
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