{"id":38746,"date":"2013-06-17T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_pond-what_excites_me_about_youth_ministry_today\/"},"modified":"2013-06-17T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:00:33","slug":"john_pond-what_excites_me_about_youth_ministry_today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38746","title":{"rendered":"John Pond&#8211;What excites me about youth ministry today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1990\u2019s the face of youth ministry was this big, overblown monstrosity of thrills and excitement, and I was all in. I simply assumed that if there were more games than God, I would draw more students with the entertainment, and hope to keep them engaged. However, in recent years I discovered by listening to my students that they want more truth.<\/p>\n<p>My leaders and students have a desire to make more of an emphasis on four things these days: the Gospel, the Scriptures, discipleship, and missions, which was not the case when I started in youth ministry fifteen years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootedministry.com\/articles\/what-excites-me-about-youth-ministry-today\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1990\u2019s the face of youth ministry was this big, overblown monstrosity of thrills and excitement, and I was all in. I simply assumed that if there were more games than God, I would draw more students with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38746\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,184,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-parish-ministry","category-youth-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}