Author: Brandon Metcalf

“Church is boring, but youth group is fun.” That statement summarizes one of the greatest struggles in youth ministry. In our desire to make the church “relevant” to youth, we can easily set up a system that is totally different from the actual congregation that we are hoping they will be a part of for the rest of their lives. They come to youth group because it is fun and their friends are there, but oftentimes it never goes any deeper than that. The youth get used to short object lessons, and so get easily bored during “long” sermons....