Excerpt:

Taken from Mark Matlock with Youth Specialties. Totally resonated with my heart:

"I can't tell you how many times I've heard a group challenged to go out and take their campus by storm. Everyone is revved up, then Monday comes and nothing happens. Was the challenge not a good one? Did people not believe it? The challenge may have been lost in this life-stage confusion—assigning a task that the group isn't ready for or capable of achieving. I believe we have a generation of church-attending students who are conditioned to inaction. They cheer and weep—yet the know deep inside that nothing will happen, and no one will really be all that concerned that nothing happened. We need to be very specific in our challenges, but also equip hearers to fulfill the challenges. The challenges also need to be measurable. (Just what does "take your campus for Christ" mean anyway?)

Ministering to young people can be awesome. Not only are they spiritually active now, but great opportunities await them further down the road as they enter adulthood. But let's go beyond just "firing them up." Let's help them go the distance."