Be-With Factor: Mentoring Students in Everyday Life - Softcover

Boshers, Bo; Poling, Judson

 
9780310271604: Be-With Factor: Mentoring Students in Everyday Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0310271606 ISBN 13: 9780310271604
Verlag: Study Resources, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

You want to make a huge, lasting difference in the lives of students, right? The Be-With Factoris a powerful, practical, and sustainable mentoring approach that does just that. It’s patterned after Jesus’ example of being with his disciples in a variety of real-life settings. It’s not another program, but it’s about reaching a generation by focusing on a few and doing life with them. Amazing things happen when you spend time with a student purposefully and intentionally—running an errand together, going to the store, grabbing lunch, letting ministry happen naturally. The impact of your faith, shown in everyday life, will transform students’ lives—and the impact on one student has the potential to reach a whole generation. Being with not only works, it’s Jesus’ way. Set forth in careful detail by two veteran leaders who live it, the Be-With factor isn’t an add-on—it’s the very heart of youth ministry. This book will help train and equip you, and once you adopt the Be-With lifestyle, it will revitalize your passion to make an eternal difference in students’ lives.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Bo Boshers is President of LEAD222, a coaching and mentoring ministry to youth leaders. Bo is recognized as a national leader and influencer of youth ministry around the world. He served as Executive Director of Student Ministries at Willow Creek Community Church and the Willow Creek Association, which influences over 20,000 churches. He is a best-selling author, motivational speaker and trainer. His passion is coaching and mentoring youth leaders in professional skills and personal character.



Judson Poling is coauthor of the Walking with God series and general editor of The Journey: A Study Bible for Spiritual Seekers.

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You want to make a huge, lasting difference in the lives of students, right? The Be-With Factoris a powerful, practical, and sustainable mentoring approach that does just that. It's patterned after Jesus' example of being with his disciples in a variety of real-life settings. It's not another program, but it's about reaching a generation by focusing on a few and doing life with them. Amazing things happen when you spend time with a student purposefully and intentionally--running an errand together, going to the store, grabbing lunch, letting ministry happen naturally. The impact of your faith, shown in everyday life, will transform students' lives--and the impact on one student has the potential to reach a whole generation.

Being with not only works, it's Jesus' way. Set forth in careful detail by two veteran leaders who live it, the Be-With factor isn't an add-on--it's the very heart of youth ministry. This book will help train and equip you, and once you adopt the Be-With lifestyle, it will revitalize your passion to make an eternal difference in students' lives.

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The Be-With FactorCopyright 2006 by Willow Creek AssociationRequests for information should be addressed to:Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataBoshers, Bo.The be-with factor: mentoring students in everyday life / Bo Boshers and JudsonPoling. --- 1st ed.p. cm.ISBN-13: 978-0-310-27160-4ISBN-10: 0-310-27160-61. Church work with teenagers. 2. Church work with students. 3. Mentoring in churchwork. I. Poling, Judson. II. Title.BV4447.B682 2006259'.23 --- dc222005030107All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible: New InternationalVersion. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permissionof Zondervan. All rights reserved.Scripture quotations marked TNIV are taken from the Holy Bible: Today's New International Version. TNIV. Copyright 2002, 2004 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan.All rights reserved.Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible: New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois. All rights reserved.Scripture quotations marked MSG are taken from The Message. Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995,1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.Scripture quotations marked CEV are taken from the Contemporary English Version. Copyright 1995 by American Bible Society. Used by permission.Scripture quotations marked NCV are taken from the New Century Version. Copyright 1987, 1988,1991 by Word Publishing, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible. Copyright1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Usedby permission.Scripture quotations marked WE are taken from the Worldwide English New Testament. Used bypermission of SOON Educational Publications.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ortransmitted in any form or by any means --- electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or anyother --- except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.Interior design by Mark SheeresPrinted in the United States of America06 07 08 09 10 11 * 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1If it matters, it's measured. In business, it's profit. In politics, it's votes.In sports, it's points. If you're reading this book, you're among thoseof us from all walks of life who care about the spiritual developmentof students. You might be a volunteer, a parent, a professional youthworker, or a pastor. How do you measure effectiveness in what you dowith students? Is it attendance at weekly meetings? Is it the number ofstudents in small groups? Is it how many kids go to camp? How manykids get baptized? How few students you lost over the course of the yearcompared to last year's attrition? Do you count letters of appreciationfrom students, their parents, or your senior pastor?By those kinds of measures you might feel pretty good at the end ofa ministry season. You might not. But what do you really know aboutyour ministry if you only pay attention to easily measured externals?When you check in with your own heart at the end of the ministryseason, how do you feel deep down inside about what you'veaccomplished --- and what it took out of you to accomplish it?There may have been a huge cost to your family, or outsidefriendships may have suffered. Was it worth it?chapter 1A Frame of Mindthe payoffI (Bo) have been working with students in full-time ministry forover twenty years. I've taught other leaders about vision and buildingprevailing youth ministries, strategic planning, developing teams,organizing large events --- and at one time led one of the largest studentministries in the country. Despite all the rewards that came from this, Ireturn again and again in my mind to two questions: What really matters?Am I successful in God's sight?Let me take you back to my early ministry years. When I first startedout in youth ministry, I was twenty-seven, a new Christian, and knewvery little about what I was doing. I'd been a football coach, but thenGod called me into full-time ministry. In my first few years of leadingstudents, I learned so much. I learned one of the most important lessonsabout what really matters while sitting on a brick wall in a Burbank,California church parking lot.Every Tuesday night we held a high school outreach event at ourchurch. We worked hard to provide a quality program where Christianstudents could invite their non-Christian friends to hear the message ofChrist. Several hundred high school students came for an evening ofsports activities and a program that featured drama, a live band, and amessage. We never knew what to expect or what God might do.After the program was over, the leadership team --- about twelve highschool and college students --- gathered in a certain spot in the parkinglot. It wasn't a planned meeting, but we always seemed to spontaneouslyshow up there --- sitting on a low brick wall. At first there'd be alot of people --- students who came for the first time, or regulars whostopped by to say hi or to introduce a friend. At some point, all the studentssaid good-night and I'd be standing there with just the guys I wasmentoring: Coleman, Dave, Troy, Trevor, and Alex. The six of us werealways the last to leave. And that's when the storytelling would begin.There were all sorts of stories --- both funny and touching. We laughedabout what went wrong that night, how bad the music was, mistakesin the drama, something I said in the message that didn't make sense,or something that happened during the sports competition. Then themood changed and the stories shifted from the activities of the eveningto the people whose lives were being changed. One of my guys hadbeen praying for months that a friend would come, and he shared howthe friend finally showed up for the first time --- and loved it. Some hadconversations with friends about God, and right then and there Godhad begun to change their lives. Others had friends who showed signsof wanting to know more about God. And then there were those fantasticcelebrations when we found out one of the students had prayedto receive Christ.I remember looking at these guys, listening to their stories, and thinking,This is what I want to give my life to. This is what really matters tome. I had an incredible sense of fulfillment when I looked into the eyesof these students and saw their compassion, their commitment, and theirlove for God. Right there in that empty parking lot, sitting on that brickwall, God showed me what ministry was all about. That is why I workedso hard and what allowed me to get through all the other 'stuff' thathas to be done in youth ministry --- those times were the payoff.When we finally said good-bye and climbed into our cars to headhome, I always left with an overwhelming sense of gratitude in my spirit.Although I was tired from the evening, I also had new energy and passionfor ministry because I knew these guys and I believed in them. And,twenty-some years later, I still love 'sitting on the brick wall,' lookinginto the eyes of a few high school students I know and love well, seeingtheir passion, their desire, and their ambition to change the world.was Jesus a success?Imagine for a minute how we might measure the effectiveness ofJesus' ministry while he was here on earth. Granted, he drew some largecrowds at the height of his popularity.

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Verlag
Study Resources
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0310271606
ISBN 13 
9780310271604
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
176
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