As You Go Quotes

“I believe student ministry needs reformation, not annihilation. I also believe the system currently in operation in many churches — more pizza parties than theological passion and more games than gospel — must be changed.”
― Alvin L Reid, As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students

“Here are a few ways you can encourage students to share, although I bet you can get with them and come up with creative ideas of your own. • Post their testimony as a Facebook note or on their blog or Tumblr, and link to that with Twitter or status updates. Or, send a message to friends and ask them to read it and give their feedback. • Tweet or post key verses, maybe a series noting the narrative of the gospel. • Set aside an hour a week online just for the gospel, like “virtual visitation” where they take that time to talk to a friend about Christ.”
― Alvin L. Reid, As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students

“The church is not a hotel for saints; it is a hospital for sinners.”
― Alvin L. Reid, As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students

“How many students are sharing their faith? How many are volunteering at the school? How are students in your ministry cultivating relationships with unchurched youth? How are their families doing? How are they living for Christ after leaving the student ministry?”
― Alvin L. Reid, As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students

“We need student pastors and national and parachurch leaders who are better at theology than at new ideas.”
― Alvin L. Reid, As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students

“Kenda Creasy Dean observed, “The National Study of Youth and Religion reveals a theological fault line running underneath American churches: an adherence to a do-good, feel-good spirituality that has little to do with the Triune God of Christian tradition and even less to do with loving Jesus Christ enough to follow him into the world.”13”
― Alvin L Reid, As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students

“We have taken the good news of the gospel off the headlines of our ministries where it should always be, and we have put it in the advice column part of our youth groups. We pull the gospel out to give advice rather than showing students how Jesus is the hero of all of Scripture, all of life, all the parts of their lives, and showing them how the gospel makes sense of everything.”
― Alvin L Reid, As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students