Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
Young people in the Seventh-day Adventist Church are in need of leadership creating effective strategies for protecting the youngsters from engaging in high risk behaviors along with finding effective methods of keeping these same youngsters churched. It is clear that God had answers to these problems long ago. A review of Matthew 25 clearly states that our purpose as Christians should be to serve individuals in need. When young people engage in service, they are more likely to be attracted to the church, get involved in the church, and stay in the church. Furthermore, service is associated with better grades in school and is effective in preventing a host of high-risk behaviors.
First Page
75
Last Page
78
Book Title
Ministering with Millennials: A Complete Report on the 180 Symposium
Editor
Roger Dudley and Allen Walshe
Publisher
Advent Source
City
Lincoln, NE
Series
The 180° Symposium
ISBN
9781577565307
First Department
Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Hopkins, Gary; McBride, Duane C.; Tyner, Stuart; and Duffy, Jonathan, "Three Reasons to Serve" (2009). Faculty Publications. 158.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/158
Acknowledgements
Used by permission, Center for Youth Evangelism at Andrews University