I wrote the following article for the Baptist Times magazine Youth to Truth column, submitted Nov. 16, 2020: Youth ministry is family ministry, so a good youth pastor will help the parents parent. Sometimes that’s done best by influencing the teen, but a youth pastor that spends ALL his time with teens is neglecting their biggest influence: the parents. Two other former youth leaders and I did a video called TOP FIVE WAYS TO HELP PARENTS, and here’s what I contributed: LOVE Loving both the teens and the parents is crucial for youth ministry because love makes it
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We do. We have disciplined Abe since birth. Right now, Abe is about 9 months old and he has learned new things every week since he was born. Why NOT train him? He is definitely learning something! It might as well be to do right. Now, do we have all-out spankings and full conversations about what he did wrong and how he disobeyed God? No. He can’t even speak English yet. Dadadada and Mamamamama and gamamadadagaga are his only words so far. But hey… we figure that if he can learn how to nurse, how to roll over, how to pick
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