en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/453101 Comments by John_Byrne http://www.studentministry.org/3-things-i-want-my-students-to-know-before-they-graduate-part-1/#IDComment63248154 Love this, those are the kind of things we have on our &quot;Description of a Discipled Person,&quot; we use it to make decisions regarding curriculum, programming and so on. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:09:32 +0000 http://www.studentministry.org/3-things-i-want-my-students-to-know-before-they-graduate-part-1/#IDComment63248154 http://www.studentministry.org/some-things-ive-been-thinking-about-lately-rants/#IDComment46730040 I echo pretty much all of these, but my favorite is #3, I have been saying that for years. I get tired of people complaining about cliques, groups of friends are natural and good. Certainly there can be healthy and unhealthy cliques (groups of friends). #8 It&#039;s amazing he impact the gospel has in so many areas. Preaching the gospel will help if it is preached in a way that is true and clear. Jesus is the ultimate weapon against a narcissistic society. He selflessly gave everything for us, how arrogant is it when we keep it to ourselves. We need to be on His mission!! Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:58:53 +0000 http://www.studentministry.org/some-things-ive-been-thinking-about-lately-rants/#IDComment46730040 http://www.studentministry.org/my-rant-on-ministry-evaluations-and-key-result-areas/#IDComment17761107 We may not be able to use empirical data to measure the spiritual maturity of our group, but as our group grows larger that data along side our own observations and the observations of our leaders can be very helpful. @ Tim Schmoyer here is the blog I published regarding how to evaluate your ministry using KRAs and a couple other acronyms: <a href="http://pjs-web.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://pjs-web.blogspot.com/</a> Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:04:57 +0000 http://www.studentministry.org/my-rant-on-ministry-evaluations-and-key-result-areas/#IDComment17761107