There are lots of voices to which you must listen. Listening to the various voices existing in your ministry is critical to being a leader.
If you’re a youth pastor, here is who you’ve got to listen to:
- your own spouse
- your own kids
- parents
- teenagers
- pastor
- elders
- other church employees
- youth ministry gurus
- other churches
- books
- others inside of your church
- those outside the church
Get the point? There are TONS of voices that will fill your ears as you’re working in ministry.
Notice any voices missing from the list?
God. Jesus. Holy Spirit. Scripture.
Sometimes we have a hard time hearing God’s voice. I think it’s because we don’t know God’s voice.
We haven’t been conversing enough.
Jesus said that His sheep recognize His voice. As those empowered by a congregation to lead and make decisions, we ought to be so dead-set on recognizing God’s voice and God’s movements that the gigantic list of voices seems to fade away.
