Reflections on Ministry at FBC Monroe City

Positives

• Focus on teaching
  
• Attempt at expository preaching to students
  
• Attempt to teach sound doctrine
  
• Relationships with students
  
• Was willing to consider and explore new ideas (within parameters)
  
• Had expectations for students
  
  • Wanted them to take the time seriously
    
  • Wanted them to grow in the knowledge and understanding of Christ
    

Negatives

• Lack of experience
  
• Became bitter and critical
  
• Lack of direction
  
• (Beth) had hard time connecting with students
  
• Teaching
  
  • Expected too much of students
    
    • Intellectually
      
    • Spiritually
      
  • Not disciplined enough in preparation
    
  • Over ambitious
    
  • My inability to bridge gap between text and teenage life
    
  • Not always able to communicate my own fallen-ness
    
• At times too rigid
  
• At times too lax
  
• Didn't attend to my own spirituality
  
• Left the church in a bad manor