Tim's Ten Minute Training

These ten minutes training segments were originally recorded to train Crossfire leaders at St. Paul's Castle Hill. 
These sessions are fundamental training 
for ANYONE who wants to be a youth leader. 
These are the absolutely foundational issues 
that you must get right if you want to have a youth ministry that develops fruitful, lasting disciples. 
Come and join us as we learn together 
the fundamentals of youth ministry.

1.  How to grow a biblical plan

This is the first video in "Tim's Ten Minute Training" - essential tips for every youth leader.  How do you start a youth ministry? It's easy to just run a great programme - and never really have a plan of where you're going. Tim shows the difference between a youth ministry based on our ideas (Me-ology), and one based on God's ideas (Theology).

2.  How to grow a biblical heart

If you're going to have a ministry that is fruitful, you need to have a heart that is fruitful. How do you go about growing your own heart - and strengthening the heart of everyone on your leadership team?

3.  How to grow a biblical purpose

Here's the question that so many youth leaders forget to ask about their youth programme.  "WHY?" That is, why are you running this group? Why are you running this programme? If you don't know WHY you're doing your ministry, you'll probably never achieve any worthwhile purpose. Wouldn't it be great to discover from the bible the purpose that God has given you for your ministry?

4.  How to grow a biblical mission

How's your youth ministry going? To answer that question, you need to know what you're meant to be achieving. Tim shows clearly from the Scriptures that there's only ONE thing that Jesus wants you to achieve in your youth ministry. Wouldn't it be terrible to be racing around achieving lots of good things for your youth programme, but fail to achieve the ONLY thing Jesus wants you to accomplish?

5.  How to grow a biblical strategy

How do you work out your ministry strategy? How do you take a student all the way from being an interested outsider, right through to being a world-changing disciple? Tim investigates Jesus' strategy for making disciples, and asks the simple question: "Is it possible that Jesus' method is still the best way to disciple the emerging generation in the 21st century?"

6.  How to grow a biblical programme

How do you make sure that your youth ministry programme will achieve your objectives? Does your programme actually reflect your strategy - and your heart? Tim gives us five key principles for programming to make sure that you end up with an effective and biblical result.

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