Your local church youth ministry gets just a few hours each week to make an investment in the lives of the young people who attend your church. In that time they are relationship building, teaching and holding our youth accountable to God's word. There is a lot of pressure for them to get it right, but is all of that pressure reasonable? Could our expectations for the breadth and scope of their impact be miscalculated?

In this episode, we explore what the role of the youth minister really is. What does it mean for them to meet the needs of the family's in our churches? How do parents and ministers optimize their partnership? What does it look like to make a meaningful investment in the lives of teens?

Today on the Postscript, Brandon Briscoe, Provost of Living Faith Bible Institute has invited Jeff Grasher, youth pastor and youth ministry instructor at LFBI to discuss what a healthy partnership between parents and a church's youth ministry could look like in light of Scripture.

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This time on The Postscript we have Living Faith Bible Institute professor and youth pastor Jeff Grasher back to the show to discuss the impact of the excessive use of social media on young minds. We discuss the emotional, psychological and cognitive affects of a digital world on youth and share anecdotes and biblical principles for parents and youth ministers. This episode will help loving Christians guide young people through the complex and often dangerous world of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

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Living Faith Bible Institute Student John Scott shares his testimony of salvation, sanctification and how he became the children's minister at a new church plant in Columbus, Ohio, Northside Baptist Church.

We sit down with pastor Beau Green of Maple City Baptist Church in Monmouth, Illinois to discuss his book titled Under Construction: How to Build a Children’s Ministry.Beau shares from the Word of God and experience how to grow a healthy children’s ministry, effectively relaying a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ through His Word to next generations. He also shares his heart on the value of working with kids and what it looks like to give them the best of resources God has entrusted to us. Finally, we take some time to discuss hurdles to working with youth and biblical solutions to overcome those issues.

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Pastor Chris Best shares how a children's ministry be conducive to learning and function as a support to what believing parents live and teach at home.