Dustin Dick

“Fire in the fireplace is a wonderful thing. Fire on the carpet has the potential to burn down your house. Sex is like fire. In the right context, it is an awesome thing. But once it is outside the context it was designed for, sex can burn your life and relationships to the ground.”
― Andy Stanley, The Seven Checkpoints for Student Leaders: Seven Principles Every Teenager Needs to Know

“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

“My gut sense is that if you’re not experiencing resistance, then you probably aren’t leading change.”
― 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