The Four Trainings For The Youth Group
Below are the suggested trainings that you can give to your youth group:
1. Word Training
The training for the people of God needs to be openly Word training. The primary priority for the students is to increase their ability to ably study, understand, apply and read God’s Word. Fundamentally, it is believed that this is due to what the Bible claimed it may accomplish. Listen to the well-known words of Paul to Timothy about the Scripture:
The Scripture is able of making you wiser for salvation by faith in Christ. All Scriptures are breathed out by the Lord and profitable to teach, for reproof, correction, and training in righteousness, where a man of God can be complete, ready for each good work in 2 Tim. 3:15b–17.
What will the Word of God accomplished in the existence of the believer by faith in Christ? It will make an individual “wise for salvation.” This will, if handled well, correct, teach, reprove, and even train in the righteousness! The Word of God place to work will make Christians well equipped and competent for better jobs of obedience and also a ministry.
Friends, when the Word of God is this effective and powerful when it’s the right place to work within the lives of the believers, then the initial order of industry in training and in equipping young ones must deal with the competence in dealing with the Word of God! The better the skills will be in the Word’s interpreted, uses, and even teaching, then, the more we can see these very results of the Word of God in their lives.
2. The Discipleship Training
The students should not just be “toss out” and told with the mentor younger learners; they should be shown just how to really actually walk with somebody in the gospel-centered, prayer-empowered and Word-driven discipleship relationship. The youth pastors are doing this, first, through modeling these types of relationships with the student leaders. The pastors are showing the student leaders what the discipleship looks like through mentoring and discipling them personally. With that foundation laid, the youth pastors will explain to the youth leaders the reasons why they acted the way they did, the motivations they have for it, and also how the students will turn apply those similar discipleship principles to the relationship with the younger student.
3. The Gospel-Centered Youth Ministries
The comprehensive handbook appears in each facet of the youth ministry from the gospel-centered perspective, giving practical advices related to almost all from planning the short-term mission journeys to interacting with the parents to cultivating a healthy relationship.
4. The Evangelism Training
Leaders and youth pastors must be training the students to fully share the biblical Gospels, faithfully, clearly, and relevantly to those unbelievers — even the unbelievers who have nothing to little background about the Christian faith. “Distribute the gospel with the circle of friends you have,” and never provide them to also do this well!
The training exactly looks like:
First, it will mean that we can give them content; that we train and we equip them to allocate to total biblical gospel. In concentration, this typically involves summarizing the Bible story — from the creation to fall, then to redemption to hope of restoration and future glory. There’s a lot there which needed to be allocated, but it is likely to share it succinctly and clearly.
Second, it will mean that they really need to practice allocating the gospel — initially in the youth ministry safety, but then in a “field.” They have to start really having to talk with people who had not been a portion of the church. Its only means of getting better at having actual conversations with the people regarding God’s good news about eternal salvation by Jesus are to actually begin doing it again.
