One of the top concerns of youth pastors and ministry leaders is how often families are skipping church for travel sports. There’s no survey calculating how many families choose sports over church, and there’s a surprising lack of data surrounding how youth sports affect the local church. But most of us don’t need statistical evidence to prove what we experience each weekend. We all see it and feel it.
Yet it’s important to recognize that sports aren’t the enemy. Today’s youth sports culture presents an opportunity to do what ministry leaders should do best: help our people learn how to live in the world but not be of the world.
How do we do that when it comes to youth sports? How can sports become a strategic context for the life of our missional community?
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