My $25 this week was spent on hanging out with students again... Who would've thought!? Tonight we are leaving to go to a Starfield concert in Gaithersburg, MD at a local church and I invited some of my high school students to go with me and my wife. I love having the opportunity to do extra activities with my students and invest in them...
High school students are funny because they seem to reschedule on me a lot... It is always practice or mom or something else that has their attention that keeps them from being able to keep that commitment. And to be honest, that kind of saddens me. What is happening to our culture? We often reschedule our Jesus time because something else has the desired end effect... I can't even blame it on my high schoolers because that is the environment they have grown up in... It is an ERA of NOW. "No more planting seeds," as my high school English teacher would say, "We live in the Society where the hot dog policy rules, you give someone a dollar, you get a hot dog, end of story. Nobody wants to wait on the end result." And I used to think he didn't get it... Boy was I wrong.
All that to say, being a youth pastor is not an easy role to fill, especially when you inherit the program. There is a level of legitimacy and respect that you just don't receive, and the worst part is that it isn't even your students' fault. They inherently do that because of the nature of the beast. But here I let the props still be given to Jesus, because without Him, I would be nowhere. Someone once said that full human potential was reached when that individual's entire existence became devoted to one, single, solitary cause - that cause being Jesus. I hope that one day I can live up to my full human potential; and that I can model it for my students so they can live up to that potential. Thanks be to Jesus for allowing us this opportunity.
When Jesus comes, the shadows depart. - Unknown
- That Guy
High school students are funny because they seem to reschedule on me a lot... It is always practice or mom or something else that has their attention that keeps them from being able to keep that commitment. And to be honest, that kind of saddens me. What is happening to our culture? We often reschedule our Jesus time because something else has the desired end effect... I can't even blame it on my high schoolers because that is the environment they have grown up in... It is an ERA of NOW. "No more planting seeds," as my high school English teacher would say, "We live in the Society where the hot dog policy rules, you give someone a dollar, you get a hot dog, end of story. Nobody wants to wait on the end result." And I used to think he didn't get it... Boy was I wrong.
All that to say, being a youth pastor is not an easy role to fill, especially when you inherit the program. There is a level of legitimacy and respect that you just don't receive, and the worst part is that it isn't even your students' fault. They inherently do that because of the nature of the beast. But here I let the props still be given to Jesus, because without Him, I would be nowhere. Someone once said that full human potential was reached when that individual's entire existence became devoted to one, single, solitary cause - that cause being Jesus. I hope that one day I can live up to my full human potential; and that I can model it for my students so they can live up to that potential. Thanks be to Jesus for allowing us this opportunity.
When Jesus comes, the shadows depart. - Unknown
- That Guy
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