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Ministering Life through the Spirit

God has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life (2 Corinthians 3:6)A great danger we face in youth ministry is presenting the gospel as an exercise in sin management and elimination. The tendency is to want to tell people in our preaching and our pastoral care to “try harder”.The results of such efforts often lead to a twofold outcome.Th...

Youth Ministry in Spirit and in Truth

But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. (John 4:23)When Jesus spoke these words to a woman at a well in Samaria, He was answering a not-uncommon question that stood at the heart of an argument between Jews and Samaritans. According to Jews, the earthly centre of worship was in Jerusalem, while Samaritans held it to be on Mount Gerizim.Meeting a man who see...