THE SEVEN CHECKPOINTS BY ANDY STANLEY.
CHAPTER: WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
My notes straight from the book...
While we have been consumed by context, the content of what we invest in students has taken a backseat. Most of us have spent little time determining what our students need to know before they graduate from high school. Our days are spent planning activities and designing camp T-shirts. Often the core of what we want students to learn gets lost in the shuffle.
Think for a moment about the class of students you just graduated from your ministry. What are the four or five key concepts, principles, or lessons you believe they walked away with as a result of their time under your leadership?
Just about every morsel of relevant or irrelevant information they pick up is being served to them on a platter designed to stimulate the senses. If it doesn’t entertain them, they aren’t interested. This is why so many of us have rushed to create high energy, entertainment-driven contexts for our ministries. And so we should—as long as the content doesn’t suffer. But it is hard to stay content-focused when the “show” takes up so much time and energy.
We need a SYSTEMATIC plan that lays out for us ahead of time the “irreducible minimum” around which to plan our teaching and curriculum choices.
These seven student-specific principles are the irreducible minimum—the must-know, can’t be without principles. They are not all that is important. But they are what is most important for students. I am convinced that these are the seven basic principles every student should understand, commit to memory, and embrace before they leave the safety of their homes and youth ministries.
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