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6 Questions To Ask Your Youth Pastor

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These questions to ask your youth pastor are designed to evaluate a youth ministry. It also helps youth pastors to evaluate themselves on where they need to improve in the youth ministry. These questions will help youth pastors answer the question, “Is there a better way?”

Evaluate your youth ministry.

6 Questions To Ask Your Youth Pastor

1. What do parents say is the focus of your youth ministry?

Whether or not parents can even answer this question tells you a lot about your communication and vision casting. If your parents don’t know, check to see if your adult volunteers know. If they don’t, you might want to work on this one.

2. Can students tell you how to become a disciple of Christ (not how to be saved, but the keys to following Christ)?

I find that students can often tell you how to become a follower of Christ and can even share the gospel, but they don’t know what a disciple looks like. They stay as baby Christians, and when they get in the world, they face all kinds of trouble. Be clear with students about growing strong in Christ and his Word.

3. Can you name three students who have become followers of Christ in the past year?

When I was a youth pastor, I had many years when no students accepted Christ. But it was in those years I knew I needed to have a greater focus on outreach.

4. Do we have student-initiated service taking place through the youth ministry?

There are service opportunities that students initiate, and there are service opportunities where we chase students down to volunteer. The latter tend to be less effective because there’s less ownership.

5. Are adult volunteers so excited about the ministry that they are recruiting new volunteers to join the team?

The best way to find new volunteers is through your current volunteers. When an adult volunteer is having an outstanding experience, they are excited about sharing it with others.

6. Are students who left your ministry over a year ago still following and serving Christ?

This is a hard one to know sometimes, but if we do a good job at giving them a solid foundation, they will continue to follow Christ with the tools and resources we have equipped them with.