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Who is "somebody else" anyways...
Anyone else have this same member in your church? Apparently s/he is the one expected to take on the new ideas, or the things that need done, but haven't been done...yet, because "somebody else" hasn't done it yet.
How do you handle this? Congregation size is ~80, Youth 15-20.
I've gone to the extreme and ocassionally wear a nametag that says "somebody else" and even preached on this once, but, it's still "the way things are" and I'm tired of it.
How do you get members to see the need and step up versus the mentality of "somebody really needs to do that" but no one does?
UPDATE: FYI...it's more the ADULTS than the teens suffering from this...
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I agree with John if you have exhausted all ideas. I took on a book club to get some college aged students to get motivated for God. We started with Crazy Love by Francis Chan. Anyway, got a handful on fire for Christ. So just like John said. |
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Prayer, cast vision, live your prayer life, live your vision, be passionate about EVERYTHING you do, put GOD first, your family second then your ministry, keep your chin up, your head straight forward, your eyes on Jesus and your eye listening to his voice. Fine anyone else in the church that shares your passions and ask them to the the same thing and just wait and see what GOD is going to do! |
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I disagree I do feel that you can motivate much more than the 20 percent if done correctly. I have seen it and been a party of it. You should seriously try student led ministry. Make it led by the students and allow them to make it thiers. Ministry is like a kids room if mom and dad tell them what they have to have in thier room and how it has to look they will go to a friends house to go hang out. But if a parent allows some freedoms in the indiduality of the kids room they want thier friends to come to thier room. Give them what they want and allow them to make it thier ministry. If you have jocks allow them to do sports stuff. If musicians allow them to create music. The more you allow to design it the more they will tell thier friend |
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I think this is like the "80-20 rule". 80 percent of the work is done by 20 percent of the people. I think if it is youth you are talking about, my limited experience is that kids aren't intrinsically motivated by much at all. They have to either see what is in it for them and then do it, or just flat out be assigned to do it. As for adults, it might be about the same. Preaching and dropping gi-normous hints might have to give way to more direct approaches. |
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probably a much bigger issue check out the video because I was there man! I had 5 kids in a church of 100. There could be a much deeper issue of why you are running into this!
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