5 Student Leadership Messages

Product Description

A 5-message series intended to help you train and motivate your student leaders and potential leaders. Originally used over a 3-day student leader retreat, these can also be used as individual messages/lessons if you were to meet monthly or quarterly.

Messages include:

1) Surprised by Leadership: this message tells the introductory story of God’s surprises. There are a lot of biblical surprises of unlikely leaders and it’s part of God’s way of doing things—He uses unlikely people to serve Him in wonderful ways.

2) The Balance of Friends & Ministry: This message challenges students to think about friendships and ministry. They will examine the difference between popularity and having a few deep friendships, and to consider how a misunderstanding of student leadership can lead toward cliques.

3) Being a Leader while being a Follower: the intent of this message is to challenge student leaders to think more deeply about what it means to follow Jesus. Being a disciple isn’t about being perfect, but it’s also not about simply showing up to youth group. Attendance ≠ discipleship.

4) Reducing the Fear-Factor of Evangelism: This is designed to help student leaders understand there’s more to evangelism than simply trying to “convert” their friends (there’s both a “live it” and a “speak it” element of evangelism). The scary-factor of evangelism can be reduced when the foundational conviction of Jesus becomes stronger.

5) An Ordinary Day becomes a Leadership Opportunity: This closing session is a simple reminder that leadership isn’t reserved the most popular, the most outgoing, the most consistent in attendance… being a student leader is about being sensitive to God’s Spirit moving. Being available. Being willing. Being open to being used by God in extraordinary ways… as an ordinary teenager.

Warning: Because our resources are inexpensive, fresh-off-our-computer, and created for our own youth ministry, there might be some typos, logic-leaps, and some bonehead mistakes. If you buy from us and use our stuff, that’s all part of the gig. We’re not claiming everything on this site is inherent or infallible (we might argue for “inspired”… by caffeine). Our bet is that you’re probably thrilled to have stuff that’s ready to use and inexpensive and you’ll deal with a few typos here and there.

Includes: .doc files