- Don’t remember kids’ names.
- Teach your Campaigner group spiritual disciplines you don’t personally practice.
- Always send mass text messages. Never call kids individually.
- Depend on your own ability to win kids to Christ.
- Retweet all tweets by your high school friends that could get them grounded if seen by their parents.
- Don’t ask anyone to pray for you and the ministry of YL.
- Be inconsistent in when you show up at the school and in your high school friends’ lives.
- Talk more than you listen. Especially focus on talking about yourself.
- Don’t get plugged into a local church body.
- Only befriend popular kids.
- Make lots of promises to kids, but don’t keep them.
- Be judgmental, always pointing out the faults of everyone but yourself.
- Compare yourself with other YL leaders in your area.
- Whenever talking with kids, never mention Christ. You wouldn’t want to be too overbearing.
- Be undisciplined and last minute in preparing all Club talks and Campaigner lessons.
- Don’t let anyone ever know your weaknesses.
- Make fun of people, especially awkward high schoolers. It always gets a good laugh.
- Spend lots of time with kids of the opposite sex. Purple is a pretty color.
- At all costs avoid personally studying God’s Word.
- Never talk to parents. That’s intimidating.
- Don’t become friends with people on your YL team. Don’t ever spend time with them outside of YL events.
- Brag about all your accomplishments. Maybe even break out your high school letter jacket so the kids will know just how much of a stud you truly were.
- Do whatever it takes to hide your secret sins. Only confess them to God, not anyone else.
- Lie whenever necessary to protect your image.
- Don’t ever memorize scripture.
- Always choose being cool over being wise, its more fun to be “one of the kids.”
- Make kids clean up after club while you check your iPhone for ESPN scores and to find out who got eliminated on The Bachelor.
- Keep ‘Young Life’ separate from the rest of your life. Don’t invite kids into your family, home, or church.
- Tell kids you’ll be there and then show up really late or just don’t show up at all.
- Gossip about other kids and YL leaders.
- Complain about how much you sacrifice to be a YL leader.
- Don’t ever pray for kids.
- Always be sarcastic.
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