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Weekly Resources, Ideas and Articles from The Source for Youth Ministry Tuesday, March 11, 2008
If you're a regular visitor to our web page then you're LOVING our new front page, packed with new resources at your fingertips every week. Notice that this week's OUTREACH RESOURCE OF THE WEEK, and SPIRITUAL GROWTH RESOURCE OF THE WEEK are both focused on Easter. Bottom line: Our front page provides easy access to the free resources you want. Updated weekly- can't beat that! Go to our HOLIDAY IDEAS page and scroll down to Easter for a number of great resources like...
Spiritual Growth Agendas: Talks/Sermons: Video Clip Ideas:
Superman Returns- We All Need Christ as Our Savior Spiderman II- Everybody Loves a Hero Jerry Maguire- Choosing Christ Amistad Ben Hur
The Source's Music Survey David R. Smith It started with an anonymous 14 year old girl in a chat room talking about chart topping songs when her friend revealed the meaning behind a song's questionable lyrics. Her response? "i love this song, and i dont really care what the lyrics mean :P" Is this the way most kids think? That's the question we were trying to answer when we polled users of The Source for Youth Ministry in our recent "What Do Your Kids Really Think?" survey in Jonathan's blog. We can assume (fairly safely) that lots of unchurched teens listen to music that has questionable-to-outright negative and harmful lyrics. But what about the kids sitting in our Wednesday night Bible studies? Are they listening to this stuff? Do they care about the content of these songs? We asked youth workers across the nation to administer a very short poll to students that attend their church programs. Over the past few weeks, we have received data from youth ministries representing hundreds of teens. Below are the six questions we asked, and our "churched" students' responses to them.
First, over half of the students admitted that music has an effect on them, good or bad (question 2). And they're right. Jonathan provided some stats to back this up in another recent blog. I was comforted that at least a slight majority of our church kids are aware of the influence music can have on their lives. Secondly, while just over half of the kids polled said adults should stay out of their music (question 1), over three quarters of the same kids said it would be OK for adults to weigh in on musical choices (question 3). I think this means that kids want to believe they're in the "driver's seat" when it comes to musical preferences, but it's OK with them for adults to "ride shotgun" sometimes. Finally, I think all of us realize that question 4 really gets down to the truth of the matter. We asked, "How many of you would still listen to the music even if you knew the lyrics were bad?" And 73% said they would. A majority of these kids already admitted that the lyrics affect them, but that doesn't stop them. In other words, temporary pleasure wins over what they know to be true. So, how does this information impact our role as youth leaders? I think there are a few things youth leaders can do that will bring this conversation to the forefront of teens' thinking... Delivered free via e-mail to subscribers each week. We encourage you to distribute this newsletter freely and ask only that you not change its contents. HAVE YOU MISSED PAST "EZINE" ARTICLES? CLICK HERE FOR JONATHAN'S "EZINE" ARCHIVES And for more FREE resources and ideas ... go to THE SOURCE www.TheSource4YM.com Copyright ©2008 The Source for Youth Ministry All rights reserved. |
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