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5 Ways to Generate Better Youth Ministry Ideas

Know that moment when the perfect idea just pops into your head?

Those are the ideas that make your messages stick, your games fun and your camps awesome.

But have you ever wondered how those ideas work?

And what if there was a way that you could generate more of them?

Turns out there is a way. I have adopted a handful of simple but very meaningful habits that have helped to hack my creativity process. These are the five steps I’ve used to help generate four times as many high-quality ideas for my ministry.

1. Prayer.

2. Talk to exactly one other person about the problem.

3. Get out of the office.

4. Shut off your brain.

5. Take a long, hot shower.

Number five is totally for real, and it’s worth sharing with your friends.

Do I seriously want you to tweet about how weird I am?

Of course I do.

Listen, I’m tired of seeing cookie-cutter, uninspired youth ministry; but the only way to change that is to encourage people to have weird ideas.

And if people need to know that it’s OK to be weird, I volunteer to go first.

So go ahead with that tweet. Fire away.

Then, when you’re done with that, I want you to leave one comment below this article and tell me which one of the techniques you’re going to start using to hack your own creativity.

You don’t even have to type out the whole sentence, just pick a number between one and five from that list and type it into the comment box.