Ten Commandments of Youth Ministry?

1  They are Your Senior Pastor, You Will have No Other Pastors Before Them. 

2.  You Shall Not Have Make Any Idols, Not Even the Mega Church Youth Pastor, That Wrote That Book and Has That Podcast. 

3.  You Shall Not Take the Church’s 90’s Youth Ministry Name In Vain.  Always shall you be “X-Treme Teenz”! 

4.  Remember Your Sabbath Day (Fridays) and Keep it Holy, from Church Drama and Work You Should Have Got Done During the Week. 

5.  Honor the Fathers and Mothers of Your Ministry and Long Will be Your Days on Staff.  

6.  You Shall Not Murder the Church Budget with Overspending on Color Dust and Pizza. 

4.  You Shall Not Commit Adulting, For You Are to Remain Immature and Hip Forever… or at Least Until You Are 35, When You Will Be Forced to Be an Associate Pastor of Something, Something… ZZZZZ. 

3.  You Shall Not Steal From the Children’s Ministry Snack Closet.  The 7 Graham Crackers to 2 Goldfish Crackers will not Miraculously Reappear by Sunday Morning!! 

2.  You Shall Not Bear False Witness to the Elder Board about Your Numbers.

1.  Your Shall Not Covent Your Neighboring Church’s Building, Budget, or Technology.