Wao!!! This is classic. Here is a book well written to address something very crucial to Youth and Student Ministry. Are you working with the Youth? Are you ministering to teenagers and students? You need to know The Mind of Student. One major reason why many of us in Youth and Student Ministry often mishandle our assignment is because we lack understanding of the mind of the generation we are mandated to minister to. While our brain is focusing on the right side, our “congregation” is thinking to the left. We wonder why these young people would not understand and obey simple instructions while they wonder why we are “misbehaving” and we cannot see “reality” from their own perspective. We want them to behave normal at this stage but Anna Frend says “to be normal during the adolescent period is by itself abnormal.” The generation gap is getting widened because we have not taken a conscious effort to study the operation of the mind of our target audience. This is a major reason we are losing this generation of people to other contending forces outside the church.
The Mind of Student is not just a book for student workers; it is also a useful material for students themselves. Many students are confused and take rash decisions they later regret in life. Majority of the youths cannot explain the reasons for their decisions because their minds work so fast and react so quickly to their environment to the point that they take a short time to think and disregard many factors before they rush into action. Many have been displaced today because of the wrong actions they took yesterday. With this book, young folks can have a better understanding of the working of their minds so as to take right decision at this stage for future fruitful life.
Brother AllenOlatunde has done a very good work in putting this material together. This is one of the best books I have seen on teenage/student/youth ministry. This is a well-researched material that goes to the depth of the subject. A lot of issues are considered here that can help both teenagers/students/youths on one hand and their ministers/parents on the other hand. The author has done a proper diagnosis of the mind of students. Everyone with the mindset of winning this young generation will find this book a useful tool for their ministry.
I appreciate the painstaking effort this writer has put in the production of this book. He has done a very good work. I hereby commend this book to all who desire to have relevant and effective ministry to the teenagers, students and youths of this generation. This is a material you need. I also encourage every youth especially students to go through and digest this material for life application. You will gain a lot, I promise you.
Above all I pray that the Holy Spirit will interpret the content of this book into the hearts of the readers so that these written words might become instruments of transformation to their minds. May you be blessed of the Lord as you go through this material in Jesus’ name.
Rev. Dr. S.A.K. Olaleye
Director of Youth and Student Ministry,
Nigerian Baptist Convention,
October, 2016
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