No Short-cuts

By Doug Franklin June 9, 2011

There are no short-cuts in life. I am sure you have heard this statement before but do you live by it? I see a bunch of folks in youth ministry taking short-cuts believing that you don’t have to do the little things in order to have impact. Short-cuts seldom work but I think most people know that. So why do so many youth workers spend time trying to make short-cuts work? Let’s stop fooling ourselves and commit to the hard work of developing others. Let’s stop doing as little as possible hoping that great things will happen. I realize I have not given specific examples in this article but I don’t think I need to because short-cutting is rampant. Ask yourself where you have been taking short-cuts in your ministry and commit to focus on doing the little things that will lead to great things.