Imagine you're 16 and your parents gave you the keys to the car for the night for a date. Then imagine you take that super important thing of theirs and just trashed it. Leave wrappers in it, get it super dirty, tear the carpet and even dent it. Your parents would be super mad and would never trust you with the car again.
Now imagine your are a student pastor who takes something even more important from a parent and treats it even worse. When you are in charge of a student, you are in charge of the most important thing in the world to a parent. When you do not take that responsibility seriously, you will lose that privilege.
So often I see youth pastors who are not doing what they are supposed to be doing with kids, not being 100% over the top safe, and my personal pet peeve, not being where they need to be with those kids. As a kid, I had a youth pastor who was always late. My parents never thought of him as someone who was responsible, not matter what he did for me and my sister. In their eyes, his lack of responsibilty for us resulted in him going from a solid student pastor in their eyes, to someone they did not want to trust their kids with. Do not lose kids for Christ because you cannot handle a bit of responsibility.
-Schutte
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