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Gospelize Your Youth Ministry
The strong and spicy heat of the gospel is the secret to effective and exciting ministry-just look at the early church!
Gospel advancement was at the heart of the early believers' discipleship, and the book of Acts gives us a vibrant picture of God's plan to use us to build His Kingdom.
Greg Stier unpacks the model found in the book of Acts, unveiling the key ingredients within the early Church, and shows you how you can blend them together today to create a gospelized youth ministry that results in dynamic kingdom growth.
So if you are looking to spice up your ministry...gospelize it! Discover the joy, excitement and transformation you've been longing to see-and that Jesus promised!
But beware, once you get a taste, nothing else will satisfy.
Gospel advancement was at the heart of the early believers' discipleship, and the book of Acts gives us a vibrant picture of God's plan to use us to build His Kingdom.
Greg Stier unpacks the model found in the book of Acts, unveiling the key ingredients within the early Church, and shows you how you can blend them together today to create a gospelized youth ministry that results in dynamic kingdom growth.
So if you are looking to spice up your ministry...gospelize it! Discover the joy, excitement and transformation you've been longing to see-and that Jesus promised!
But beware, once you get a taste, nothing else will satisfy.
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255 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2015
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July 23, 2018
This is a great book for anyone currently working in, or will be going into, youth ministry. Greg Stier and the Dare2Share Ministry focus on equipping students to evangelize and make disciples who make disciples. Gospelize is full of great tactics and methods that are rooted in scripture and the Gospel. I also really enjoyed the exerts at the end of each chapter that highlight different youth pastors who use the D2S methods in their youth ministries. The book is entertaining, influential, and written in a way that is focused on scripture.
January 31, 2025
This was a fantastic resource!
So many youth groups are too focused on being a fun place where kids can get away. That’s great and all but the truths capitalized in this book show the desperate need for our youth groups in our churches to be biblically goal oriented.
Students learning to teach other students about the Bible and who Jesus is. That is how Christ intended evangelism to work. A fire inside of someone helps someone else to know Christ.
I was very blessed by the teaching in this book.
So many youth groups are too focused on being a fun place where kids can get away. That’s great and all but the truths capitalized in this book show the desperate need for our youth groups in our churches to be biblically goal oriented.
Students learning to teach other students about the Bible and who Jesus is. That is how Christ intended evangelism to work. A fire inside of someone helps someone else to know Christ.
I was very blessed by the teaching in this book.
May 8, 2023
Love Greg’s encouragement to create youth ministries that are built on applying the truth of Jesus through taking action to share that truth with the world around them. We need to keep the mission at the forefront of our engagement with the gospel of Jesus and continue to believe Jesus is STILL in the business of transforming lives from death to life.
August 5, 2024
5/5 - really enjoyed this one. Gonna be using a lot of this for the basis of our “Out” focus this year. Especially loved the call to “pray, care, serve, share”. That’s in the running for our theme for the year.
May 14, 2018
If you want to truly transform your youth ministry this would be a great read. Praying and training your students regarding the Gospel. Great Book. Thanks Greg....
June 11, 2019
Great theory, now let's practice. Time to get back to our roots!
July 2, 2019
Great book for youth ministry. If I taught a class on YM this book would be a textbook. Great principles to apply to create and maintain a spiritually healthy youth ministry.
January 24, 2017
If you’ve ever met Greg Stier, you know how hard it is not to like the guy. It’s also immediately clear what his core passion is: spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, especially to teens. He breathes, lives, and radiates that gospel—and this book is the manifestation of that.
Aimed primarily at youth pastors and youth leaders (though his approach is without a doubt applicable to entire churches), Gospelize Your Youth Ministry lays out a solid method to put the gospel at the very core of your youth ministry. The result is what Greg calls a Gospel Advancing Ministry and through many examples from the book of Acts and from youth ministries nowadays, Greg shows the incredible impact a ministry like that can have.
What I liked most about the strategies Greg lays forth in this book is that they’re evidence based for the most part. Dare 2 Share (the organization Greg Stier founded aimed at spreading the gospel amongst teens) has done a nationwide research to determine what effective youth ministries (those with a conversion rate of 25% or higher) had in common. The analysis resulted in seven values, which are also found in Scripture:
Intercessory prayer
Relational evangelism
Leaders who fully embrace and model the gospel and evangelism
A disciple multiplication strategy
A bold vision
Biblical outcomes to measure
Ongoing programs reflect the importance of the gospel and evangelism
None of these are new, unknown, or even shocking. Some may even say these values are pretty much standard—except they’re consistently present in only a minority of youth ministries.
The rest of the book is devoted to explaining each of these values in more detail. Greg consistently bases his statements on Scripture, then affirms it with stories from his own experience. The book is sprinkled with humor by the way, which is one of the reasons why the book is so easy to read.
Youth leaders (and pastors alike) will find the book encouraging and challenging at the same time. Greg unfailingly raises the bar with the passion he’s so well-known for. It’s contagious and inspiring and he makes you want to go all in for Jesus with your youth ministry—which is exactly where you should be. Seriously, your hands will start to itch when you read this to start putting it into practice. This book offers you practical tools to help transform your ministry into a gospel-centered, Jesus-centered youth ministry that consistently and lovingly draws teens to Jesus. Read and apply.
Aimed primarily at youth pastors and youth leaders (though his approach is without a doubt applicable to entire churches), Gospelize Your Youth Ministry lays out a solid method to put the gospel at the very core of your youth ministry. The result is what Greg calls a Gospel Advancing Ministry and through many examples from the book of Acts and from youth ministries nowadays, Greg shows the incredible impact a ministry like that can have.
What I liked most about the strategies Greg lays forth in this book is that they’re evidence based for the most part. Dare 2 Share (the organization Greg Stier founded aimed at spreading the gospel amongst teens) has done a nationwide research to determine what effective youth ministries (those with a conversion rate of 25% or higher) had in common. The analysis resulted in seven values, which are also found in Scripture:
Intercessory prayer
Relational evangelism
Leaders who fully embrace and model the gospel and evangelism
A disciple multiplication strategy
A bold vision
Biblical outcomes to measure
Ongoing programs reflect the importance of the gospel and evangelism
None of these are new, unknown, or even shocking. Some may even say these values are pretty much standard—except they’re consistently present in only a minority of youth ministries.
The rest of the book is devoted to explaining each of these values in more detail. Greg consistently bases his statements on Scripture, then affirms it with stories from his own experience. The book is sprinkled with humor by the way, which is one of the reasons why the book is so easy to read.
Youth leaders (and pastors alike) will find the book encouraging and challenging at the same time. Greg unfailingly raises the bar with the passion he’s so well-known for. It’s contagious and inspiring and he makes you want to go all in for Jesus with your youth ministry—which is exactly where you should be. Seriously, your hands will start to itch when you read this to start putting it into practice. This book offers you practical tools to help transform your ministry into a gospel-centered, Jesus-centered youth ministry that consistently and lovingly draws teens to Jesus. Read and apply.
October 9, 2024
This book helps you to step away from lies of what youth group should be, and brings to the light the truth: the GOSPEL will light up the youth!
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