Somewhere between apathy and a God-complex lies the day to day life of your average youth minister. Finding a healthy, holy spot in that spectrum is a daily challenge.
This is particularly challenging when faced with all those teens you see in your community that are not crossing the threshold of the youth room. There is a great temptation to believe that if we don't reach them, then they are doomed to a life of faithless hedonism that will only result in never finding a home in God. There is also the temptation, often particular to a nearly burnt out individual, to not see what else we could possibly do to reach out to that individual.
Finding a way to operate on a day to day basis where you have a constant desire for effective outreach, evangelization, catechesis, and pastoral care that is balanced with the recognition that you, in fact cannot save the world (for Someone else already did) becomes the balancing act we all struggle to walk.
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