I spent some time this afternoon thinking about our youth ministry programming over the past year. I had read this blog entitled “Do you keep pushing youth ministry buttons that don’t work?” and it got me thinking about our youth ministry program.
Having been one of Kenda Creasy Dean’s students at Princeton Theological Seminary, one question that will forever be stuck in the back of my mind when planning youth ministry programming is “What is the theological foundation for _______?” Before going to seminary, I probably planned a bunch of stuff with my previous youth group for no real good reason. It may have been because I just thought there were certain activities I “had” to do at youth group. Or maybe there were just things that we’d always done that I needed to keep doing. But I didn’t really think very theologically about what I was doing.
