Challenging Normal

Way too often in Youth Ministry we judge our success by the size of our services. On how many teenagers walk through the doors every week. If we have a down week we feel like a failure and if we have a good crowd then we live on that high every week. I believe that we have a very jaded view of success. Instead of measuring our success by the number of students maybe we should be judging it by the size of our impact. How many students your ministry is impacting week in and week out. Through your service, through your life, and through the life of your students. It is not about how many students come to your Youth Ministry or even know your name, it is about how many students know Jesus.

The way we do ministry we act like it is more important to be popular or put on a good entertaining show every week than to see an eternal impact made in student's lives. You can not judge success in Youth Ministry by counting heads every week. You can not judge the success of Youth Ministry until 3 years later, or 5 years later, or even 10 years later. Sometimes it is not about how many students we have in our ministry, but how many students are in ministry.