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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Marriage is a wonderful gift from God. It is the very first institution God established for mankind on earth, but if there is anything we can learn from Adam and Eve it is that it can be very difficult to stay on mission without yielding to distractions of worldly things. Even good Christian marriages can be distracted with the cares of this world and with the joys of building a family.

Thankfully, the New Testament presents us with a model marriage through the apostle Paul’s friends Priscilla and Aquila who we will be discussing. We have invited pastor Jay Schug of Community Fellowship Baptist Church of Huntsville Alabama to discuss this topic. Jay was the guest speaker at the WedStrong Retreat this year (2023) in Nashville and brings us a summary of what he presented to couples of the Living Faith Fellowship this year.

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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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In this episode with pastor Kenny Morgan we discuss what it looks like to raise teens in the nurture & admonition of the Lord. Kenny shares from his own experience & answers questions relating to character-building & granting autonomy as a teen matures.

In this episode Pastor, Mark Trotter shares with us how loving ones family is the first responsibility of a ministry leader. We speak about the importance of the pastor bringing his family into the ministry with him and how a good leader will learn to say no to things that derail his relationships at home.