Josh GriffinMore PostsHSM Weekend in Review: Volume 183

Weekend Teaching Series: XXX (series finale, week 2 of 2)
Sermon in a Sentence: How to be a good neighbor.

Service Length: 84 minutes

Understandable Message: This weekend Craig Gross, founder of XXXChurch, spoke to our high school students in all 4 weekend services. Last week he hit the topic of pronography strong, this week he took the series on the next step – how to I share my freedom and faith in Christ with my friends. His main passage was the Good Samaritan and told stories of how he has seen God work in his life and ministry. Really powerful!

Element of Fun/Positive Environment: This weekend we played Facebook Hack, which was a total riot. If you’re not familiar with it yet, steal this idea now (hit the link for the full scoop and graphics). Basically, we use an iPad and the contestant logs in and then gives control of their Facebook to the host. The host asks questions, and if the contenstant gets it wrong the host can unfriend whoever or post whatever they want. Hilarious! As an added bonus as the game was coming to a close, the contestant at one of the services took out a piece of paper and had written a poem to his girlfriend and asked her to prom with him. It made for a super memorable ending!

Music Playlist: We Could Change the World, Our God, Love Came Down, All I Am, To the Ends of the Earth,

Favorite Moment: My favorite moment was definitely the message and having Craig here to speak. I also loved having my friend Chris Wohlers back in HSM this weekend as a guest host to Facebook Hack. Chris was on the high school team last year but took a great opportunity with our adult service video team.

Up next: Workshop Weekend (1-off)

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Josh GriffinMore PostsGUEST POST: How to Have a Conversation About Porn with a Student

You have a porn problem in your youth group whether you know it or not. High school, junior high, college–it’s present at every age. No longer do students have to go looking for porn, because in today’s age, porn comes looking for them. It might not be an easy topic for most students to talk about, and you may need to find a different way to communicate with students in your group, but it’s a topic that needs to be discussed.

Over the past couple months, we have both taken a week to meet with our junior high and high school small groups to discuss God’s view of porn, how to avoid and battle the temptation, and open the door to conversation. Here are some things we did right, and also some things that we learned from:

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Josh GriffinMore PostsPOLL: Youth Workers and Porn

I realize that this poll is a little jarring to be hit with on a Monday morning … but I would love your anonymous honesty. Youth workers – are you looking at porn?

JG

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Josh GriffinMore PostsGroup Magazine Live: Sexual Sin

Group Magazine is hosting a new LIVE online event for youth workers this Thursday June 21, 2011 at 8am Pacific that will be hosted on SimplyYouthMinistry.tv. Several great people will be there, including Craig Gross of xxxchurch.com. I know summer is a crazy time for youth workers (I’m out of town and will miss it!) but if you can it will be great – RSVP on Facebook right here.

We here at Group Magazine decided to do something we’d never done before: a theme issue. And the thematic elephant in the room that no one is talking about is sexual sin. So we’re dragging that elephant–kicking and bellowing–into the light where we can deal with it. The articles on this page each tackle a different aspect of sexual sin. Hope to see you there!

JG

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