Who are your Bible lessons for?
When you are creating Bible lessons to present to your youth ministry you must remember who you are presenting them to. Your youth ministry is most likely made up of teenagers in high school and also in middle school. You may also have students who are much younger but for the purposes of this article we will talk about creating Bible lessons for teenagers.
The first thing you have to remember about teenagers is that they have a short attention span and you must gain their attention and engage them as soon as you can. Teenagers have a tendency to want to talk amongst themselves when they are in a group setting which will throw your class and Bible lesson presentations off-track easily if you do not take control. So the first thing that you should do to engage her students is to incorporate them into each Bible lesson and presentation that you deliver to them. At the beginning of each youth ministry meeting or Bible lesson ask them a few questions about the topic that you are covering to see what their feelings are on the subject that you will be covering. By having your youth ministry students voice their opinions on the various subjects that you will be covering you not only engage them in the process of the class but you might also be able to start an interesting group discussion with your students.
Your Bible lessons must also be directly aimed at your students to keep their attention. When you are teaching lessons from the Bible make it a point to connect stories from the Bible to topics that are interesting to your youth ministry students of today. When you connect the stories from the Bible to their everyday lives you are engaging them and bringing them into the stories and letting them make connections with the characters of the Bible. When they are able to make connections with the characters from the stories they are much more likely to be interested and engaged in the Bible lessons that you are teaching to them. It is also a good idea to connect the stories of the Bible to the current events that are happening in your local community or nationwide news that impacts everybody.
Your youth ministry students also need to have a youth ministry leader who is not afraid to use multimedia presentations in the Bible lessons. Teenagers today have access to every kind of electronic and are interested in multimedia presentations such as DVDs power points and movie clips. When you deliver a Bible lesson through the mediums that they are comfortable with you will more likely be able to grab their attention and engage them in to the Bible lessons that you are teaching to your youth ministry.
In the end remember that your Bible lessons are aimed at youth ministry students who are teenagers for the most part. It is up to you to make the material mature enough for a teenager so they do not feel that you are treating them with kid gloves, and also you must make your Bible lessons engaging and entertaining to keep their attention.
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