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Originally Posted by deltaguitar
THE MINISTRY DOES SEE THROUGH THIS!!! I believe that lots of these guys know exactly what is going on but it looks so much better to have a bunch of "on fire" youth group that you can brag about at district events. It is called playing church and nobody does it better that kids growing up in the UPC. Then you get to the point where people think that church isn't any good unless people are running the aisles. I have heard them say that "God wasn't there" or "that is a dead church".
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Sad but true, I was a youth Pastor for a unamed Pastor who told me that my job was to get the Youth Fired up so that they would jump and shout when he preached.
I was wanting to get them grounded in a relationship with Jesus, and cling to him as their only hope. Essentially deal with root issues rather than fruit.