Dustin Dick

“Leaders must regularly reassess what’s working as a result of the changes, what’s not working, what still needs attention, and how people are responding to the changes. The vision doesn’t end with implementation; it ends with saturation and acceptance.”
― April Diaz, Redefining the Role of the Youth Worker: A Manifesto of Integration

“I tell the girls in our student ministry, “You don’t really want sex. What you want is intimacy. You want to meet a guy, fall in love, and know you can trust him completely. You want somebody with whom you can share everything there is to know about you without fear of betrayal or rejection. You want to be fully known and to know him fully. Purity now paves the way to intimacy later.”
― Andy Stanley, The Seven Checkpoints for Student Leaders: Seven Principles Every Teenager Needs to Know

“In a post-Christian world, no value is placed on the Sabbath, so our children have some scheduled activity seven days a week. This has created the most anxious and stressed-out generation in history.”
― Brock Morgan, Youth Ministry in a Post-Christian World: A Hopeful Wake-Up Call

“Our students are growing up in a pluralistic society that’s much different than the world in which you and I grew up. And if you’re smack-dab in the midst of adolescence and your top goals are to fit in and not stand out, to be different by being just like everyone else, then the acceptance of all things is an important value to have. This is the world we’re living in, and it’s the collision of all things.”
― Brock Morgan, Youth Ministry in a Post-Christian World: A Hopeful Wake-Up Call