Youth Ministry Exam 1 Luke Dockery

Judges 2.7-12 as a cautionary tale for YM

Joshua dies and all the elders die and the new generation doesn't know anything about the Gospel

Parable of the Talents and YM

Guy goes away on a mission and leaves behind 3 men with talents and Stewardship: God has entrusted the church with his children

Complete and explain Elements of YM chart

Programming. Learning. Dischiplship

Higher Visibility - Events. Teaching Example

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Lower Vis. Admin. Study Spiritual Life

4+1 and 5:1

4+1 is continuing to minister students one year after they graduate high school (Four years of highschool plus 1 year of college) encorages sticky faith

5:1 is that teens should have 5 or more adults from the church invested in them.

Sticky Faith definition from the book (3 parts)

Sticky faith is

Both internal and external

both personal and communal

both mature and maturing

"Phrases that matter" from Practical Wisdom

The Bible,

The Church,

Communication,

Relationships

All Matter!!

"Youth Ministry Commitments" from first two years

I will

Move slowly,

Focus on priorities

Steer clear of the numbers game

Not criticize the past

Avoid the comparison trap

Pace myself

Serve

Pursue Contentment

Be a learner

Regularly check my motives and evaluate my heart

Why do teens leave church after high school (Age Segregation)

Because no one checks on them

Because they don't like the new church in their college town

No one to force them to go

Its scary

Sleep

(Anything we wrote on the white board that day)

"Family ministry and Intergenerational Ministry

All generations of the church working together in ministry to young people.

Youth ministry that emphasizes the vital role of parents in raising their children in the faith is more faithful to biblical teaching and is likely to be more successful as well, because parents are the primary spiritual influencers of their children

Difference between intergenerational vs multigenerational

INTER- All generations of the church working together (Better)

MULTI- Different Generations Present (worse)

Essay: age segregation in society and the church

Effected positively when elders interact with young people in the church. Check up on them, actually be interested in them.

Essay: Physical family and faith family in Scripture and benefits of Youth In Family Ministry

Physical Family

(1) Enable parents to worship with their kids.

(2) Provide opportunities to live the Christian life as a family.

(3) Help parents teach and raise their kids in the Lord.

Faith Family:

(1) Encourage relationships between young people and older, mature Christians.

(2) Remove young people from worshiping with the rest of the congregation as little as possible.

From Practical Wisdom for Youth Ministry, David Fraze says that a youth minister is someone who has been called and sent to _______________.

serve teenagers

preach the gospel

grow the size of a youth group

babysit and entertain kids

serve teenagers

According to Fraze, which is not one of the three areas in which youth ministers fulfill their roles as "teenage culture missionaries"?

Make worship less boring for students

Bring students to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ

Equip students for life and ministry

Assimilate students into the life of the church

Make worship less boring for students

In discussing when it is time for a youth minister to leave, what does Frae say about a crisis that is pushing you out of youth ministry or to another church?

Wait until the crisis has passed to make your decision.

Recognize this as a prompting from the Holy Spirit and leave.

Recognize this as a temptation from Satan and stay.

Seek wise counsel from a spiritual mentor.

Wait until the crisis has passed to make your decision.

What does Fraze mean by the statement, "You are not as great or as bad as people say you are"?

All of these are correct.

Do not let criticism or praise define your ministry.

Do not let criticism or praise cloud your identity as a child of God.

God wants us to use our unique gifts for youth ministry.

ALL

Why is it important for you to "Live life for those who are going to be around your bed when you die"?

All of these are correct.

It provides balance to your schedule.

It reminds of the importance of keeping your private and public life in order.

It gives the ability to say "no" when ministry wants you to say "yes".

ALL

From Your First Two Years In Youth Ministry, which of the following is not one of Doug Fields' "Top 10 Youth Ministry Commitments"?

I will focus on growing the size of my youth group.

I will move slowly.

I will focus on priorities.

I will regularly check my motives and evaluate my heart.

I will focus on growing the size of my youth group.

What does Fields say about criticizing the past?

It is easy to criticize; character finds goodness and brings attention to it.

We should focus on the present and the future; the past does not matter.

Criticizing the past enhances our credibility.

Criticizing the past is only fair if we find ourselves having to deal with problems caused by past mistakes.

It is easy to criticize; character finds goodness and brings attention to it.

According to Fields, Jesus gave the church a unique model of leadership that requires ________________.

serving

being great with people

seminary training

knowing how to handle church politics

serving

What are some examples of ways that youth ministers can commit to being learners?

All of these are correct.

Read

Discuss ideas with people you disagree with

Sit at the feet of teachers who are younger and older than you.

ALL

Which of the following is not mentioned by Doug Fields in his discussion of discontentment?

When you are feeling discontent, a new ministry opportunity is usually what you need.

A frequent result of discontentment is walking away from your ministry.

Leaving your ministry too soon after arriving hurts the church.

When you leave your ministry too soon because of discontentment, the next leader has to deal with the backlash.

When you are feeling discontent, a new ministry opportunity is usually what you need.

From chapter 1 of Sticky Faith, what percentage of kids who are connected to a youth group when they graduate from high school will fail to stick with their faith in college?

40-50%

80-90%

20-30%

60-70%

40-50%

What percentage of college students who leave the church during college actually planned to do so during high school?

20%

0%

40%

60%

20%

What percentage of full-time college students binge drink with alcohol, abuse prescription drugs, and/or abuse illegal drugs each month?

50%

25%

33%

75%

50%

College students often make key decisions about whether or not they will be involved in risky behaviors like binge drinking how quickly in their college careers?

Within the first two weeks of their freshman year

By the end of their freshman year

By the end of their first semester

Within the first month of their freshman year

Within the first two weeks of their freshman year

Which is not part of the definition of Sticky Faith?

Sticky Faith is both ancient and modern.

Sticky Faith is both internal and external.

Sticky Faith is both personal and communal.

Sticky Faith is both mature and maturing.

Sticky Faith is both ancient and modern.

What is the top suggestion of the Sticky Faith authors for helping to build lasting faith in students?

Trust the Lord with your kids and ask the Lord to build faith in them.

Reading Sticky Faith and do what it says.

Borrow a youth ministry plan from one of the Sticky Faith cohort churches.

Spend more time playing dodgeball with students and feeding them pizza.

Trust the Lord with your kids and ask the Lord to build faith in them.

From Sticky Faith chapter 2, what matter most when it comes to spiritual maturity in students?

Their internal faith and trust in the Lord.

The number of religious activities they are involved in.

The amount of Bible knowledge they have.

The spiritual influence of their friends.

Their internal faith and trust in the Lord.

What is the "Gospel of Sin Management"?

Being a Christian means following a list of what we should and shouldn't do.

Jesus came to "manage" our sin so we don't have to worry about it.

Placing our trust in Christ rather than our own good deeds.

We can never be good enough, so it doesn't matter.

Being a Christian means following a list of what we should and shouldn't do.

From this chapter, how do spiritual disciplines help us grow spiritually?

Spiritual disciplines put us in a position to be drawn into trusting Christ more fully.

They don't.

The practice of doing spiritual disciplines makes us rightoues.

Spiritual disciplines take our minds off of worldly pursuits.

Spiritual disciplines put us in a position to be drawn into trusting Christ more fully.

Which of the following is not one of the suggestions of the Sticky Faith authors for teaching that builds Sticky Faith?

Emphasize obedience rather than trusting in God.

Use case studies with students to help them figure out what it means to trust God.

Expose students to real-life examples of others learning to trust God.

Talk about recovery and repentance.

Emphasize obedience rather than trusting in God.

From Sticky Faith chapter 3, because of the influence of social environments, a student's identity is both ______________ and ________________.

personal; communal

internal; external

traditional; contemporary

static; dynamic

personal; communal

From this chapter, what is a major factor that leads to the delay in identity formation among adolescents?

Young people's friends rarely overlap from context to context, which makes it hard for them to figure out how others perceive them.

Young people spend too much time around their parents, so they do not develop their own identities.

Young people spend so much time playing video games that they are detached from reality.

Young people try to work on identity formation at younger and younger ages.

Young people's friends rarely overlap from context to context, which makes it hard for them to figure out how others perceive them.

Which is not one of the problems of students putting their faith in an "identity lockbox"?

When students put their faith in an identity lockbox, it is kept safe for life after college.

When students put their faith in an identity lockbox, they are easily pushed by the shifting winds of their college culture.

When students put their faith in an identity lockbox, it affects the quality of their integrated thinking.

When students put their faith in an identity lockbox, many will later deeply regret decisions they made when faith was not an active part of their lives.

When students put their faith in an identity lockbox, it is kept safe for life after college.

What can youth workers do to help students maintain an identity of being God's beloved child rather than placing faith in a lockbox?

All of these are correct.

Develop rituals and rites of passage.

Help kids learn to reflect on their experiences.

Seek variety in leaders.

ALL

What is meant by the 4+1 model of Sticky Youth Ministry?

Continue to minister to students one year after they graduate from high school.

For every four students in your youth ministry, you should have one adult mentor.

Each student should be connected to four friends in your youth ministry plus one adult mentor.

For every four Bible classes you teach in youth ministry, you should have one pizza party.

Continue to minister to students one year after they graduate from high school.

From "The Church Matters" chapter, what is one of the main reasons that students stay involved with the church after graduation?

convenient worship times

adults

contemporary worship styles

coffee and donuts on Sunday mornings

adults

Which of the following was not suggested as a way to better integrate students into the church body?

Find opportunities in which adults and teens can work together in service and missions.

Expand your volunteer youthworker pool.

Invite older church members into your youth ministry to tell stories.

Demand changes in worship to make it more inviting for students.

Demand changes in worship to make it more inviting for students.

From "Relationships Matter", what is so important about youth ministry events?

Events really aren't an important part of youth ministry.

Events provide the opportunity for you to teach life-changing lessons.

Events provide the opportunity to provide long-lasting memories that will tie students to the church.

Events possess life-changing power to develop and support relationships with God's people.

Events possess life-changing power to develop and support relationships with God's people.

Which group of people is not mentioned by Fraze as having responsibility to develop relationships with students?

Youth Ministers

Parents

Church communities

Youth Ministry Consultants

Youth Ministry Consultants

From Sticky Faith chapter 4, how did Jesus define greatness in His kingdom?

Welcoming a child.

Those who best know and understand Scripture.

Those who have the most power and authority over others.

Converting the most people to follow Christ.

Welcoming a child.

We cannot understand what it means to be a part of a Sticky Church that develops long-term faith in kids until we understand that church is about ______________.

people

budgets

activities

programs

people

What is the closest thing to a "silver bullet" that the Sticky Faith research has found to build mature faith in high school and college students?

Intergenerational worship

Mentoring

Small groups

Justice work

Intergenerational worship

What is the number one way that churches made teens feel welcomed and valued?

Nice facilities

Contemporary worship

Large youth budget

Showing an interest in them

Showing an interest in them

What did the Sticky Faith research show in relation to first semester college freshmen and contact with their home congregations?

Contact from the senior pastor or preacher during the first semester of college is linked with Sticky Faith.

Contact from at least one adult from the congregation outside of the youth ministry during the first semester of college is linked with Sticky Faith.

Contact from the youth minister during the first semester of college is linked with Sticky Faith.

College freshmen do not like to be contacted by their home churches; they prefer to be "out of sight, out of mind".

Contact from at least one adult from the congregation outside of the youth ministry during the first semester of college is linked with Sticky Faith.

According to the Sticky Faith research, which of the following is not one of the top three difficulties that students face as they journey to college?

Friendship

Aloneness

Finding a church

Finances

Finances

What is the 5:1 ratio?

For every five dollars in your youth group budget, one of those should be spent directly on students.

Teens should have five or more adults from the church invested in them.

For every five students you have, you should have one small group leader.

There should be no more than five students for every one adult chaperone you have on youth group trips.

Teens should have five or more adults from the church invested in them.

What four areas were specifically mentioned where 5:1 programming can occur?

Teaching, worship, mentoring, missions

Teaching, worship, mentoring, rituals

Teaching, worship, mentoring, serving

Teaching, mentoring, serving, rituals

Teaching, worship, mentoring, rituals

Ideally, whose primary responsibility is it to link kids with five or more caring adults?

youth ministers

parents

church elders

small group leaders

parents

From Sticky Faith chapter 6, what is the most important spiritual influence in the lives of young people?

their parents

their youth ministers

their friends

their preachers

their parents

Based on research, what percentage of students have regular spiritual conversations with their parents?

5% with moms; 12% with dads

10% with moms; 25% with dads

25% with moms; 10% with dads

12% with moms; 5% with dads

12% with moms; 5% with dads

What does research reveal about how likely Christian parents are to talk to their kids about tricky subjects?

Christian parents are equally likely compared to other parents to talk about tricky subjects with their kids.

There is no research data on this.

Christian parents are less likely than other parents to talk about tricky subjects with their kids.

Christian parents are more likely than other parents to talk about tricky subjects with their kids.

Christian parents are less likely than other parents to talk about tricky subjects with their kids.

What is the best way for parents to have conversations with their kids?

Parents should avoid asking questions because this gives the impressions that they are not knowledgable.

Parents should avoid difficult subjects to make sure that their conversations with their kids are always positive.

Students respond well to lectures from their parents.

Parents should listen and ask questions rather than lecture their kids.

Parents should listen and ask questions rather than lecture their kids.

From Sticky Faith chapter 7, which is not one of the top reasons students give for being part of a youth ministry?

They enjoy the games

They like the youth minister/pastor

They feel comfortable at youth group

They learn about God at youth group

They enjoy the games

A year after graduation, which of the following was not one of the most significant things that students remembered about youth group?

The sermons and teaching

Friendships

The community formed

The adults involved

The sermons and teaching

Which of the following is not one of the top things that students wanted more of from their youth groups?

Pizza and dodgeball

Mission trips

Time for deep conversation

Service projects

Pizza and dodgeball

What correlation exists between student leadership in youth group and sticky faith?

The effect of being involved in leadership on the faith of students depended on the gender of the student.

Students who participated in leadership in their youth ministry showed stronger faith three years later than those who didn't.

Students who participated in leadership in their youth ministry tended to burn out and exhibit weaker faith three years later than those who didn't.

There was no difference in the faith of those who participated in leadership and those who didn't.

Students who participated in leadership in their youth ministry showed stronger faith three years later than those who didn't.

According to the research, what percentage of high school youth group students prayed and read their Bibles daily?

12% prayed daily; less than 50% read their Bibles daily

Less than 50% prayed daily; 12% read their Bibles daily

83% prayed daily; 42% read their Bibles daily

42% prayed daily; 83% read their Bibles daily

Less than 50% prayed daily; 12% read their Bibles daily

According to the research, what is the relationship between doubt and Sticky Faith?

When students feel free to express doubts in their youth groups, it actually promotes Sticky Faith.

There is no correlation between doubts and Sticky Faith.

Students who experience doubts are less likely to develop Sticky Faith.

If students ignore their doubts, they are more likely to develop Sticky Faith.

When students feel free to express doubts in their youth groups, it actually promotes Sticky Faith.

What does the practice of lament remind us of?

It is important for us to have faith and keep our doubts to ourselves.

If we express our doubts, they grow more powerful.

God is grieved when we have doubts.

It is okay for us to express our struggles and ask God hard questions.

It is okay for us to express our struggles and ask God hard questions.

Which of the following was not one of the most important factors in influencing students who were not yet Christians to follow Christ?

Their parents

The youth minister

The nonverbal witness of their friends

The verbal influence of their friends

The youth minister

From Sticky Faith chapter 8, how many youth group graduates feel "very prepared" for what college brings their way?

1/4

1/5

1/7

1/3

1/7

How do youth group graduates feel about hearing from someone from their high school youth group once they are in college?

They don't want to hear from their youth group, and usually do not.

They don't want to hear from their youth group, but usually do anyway.

They want to hear from their youth group, but often do not.

They don't care one way or the other about hearing from their high school youth group.

They want to hear from their youth group, but often do not.

For college freshmen, what is the relationship between engaging in a church or campus group and developing Sticky Faith?

Engaging in a church or campus group is not helpful in developing Sticky Faith.

Engaging in a church or campus group is actually harmful in developing Sticky Faith.

Engaging in a church or campus group is very beneficial for developing Sticky Faith.

Engaging in a campus group is somewhat helpful to developing Sticky Faith, but engaging in a church is not.

Engaging in a church or campus group is very beneficial for developing Sticky Faith.

Which of the following was not part of the advice given by former youth group graduates to high school seniors?

Find a faith community at college and get connected.

Engage with your faith, including emerging questions and doubts.

Don't worry about what your faith journey will look like in college.

Practice personal spiritual disciplines.

Don't worry about what your faith journey will look like in college.

According to college students, what was not one of the top criteria for them when it came to choosing a church.

the worship

the facilities

the teaching

the mission/vision

the facilities