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WHAT IS OUR PURPOSE?
Our purpose as a Juniors youth group is to Reach and Mature Young
people for Christ.
Jesus said:
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching
them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surly I am with
you always, to the very end of the age.”
We make disciples by reaching and maturing. This means that Juniors
young people are to come into salvation through Jesus Christ and
then begin and continue to grow in their faith, seeking to be used
by God to reach and mature others also.
There are many different applications of this:
We need to remember who we are doing it for, Jesus.
Youth leadership is not about our selves.
It is about building God’s Kingdom.
Doing it for Jesus means we are ultimately responsible to him
for our
actions. We as youth leaders are ambassadors for God’s Kingdom.
The
great commission is clear that we need to make disciples.
That means we need to both reach and mature as a youth ministry.
It doesn’t necessarily
mean that we have to do both at the same
time but
both these elements need
to be part of our overall strategy.
We see reaching and maturing of young people not just
confined
to the region of North Beach.
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