The aim of our charge in youth ministry - 3

1 Timothy 1:5 "The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith." – ESV

The aim of our charge is love and Paul encourages Timothy that this love comes from a pure heart and a good conscience. Our students are longing for people to walk alongside them who have a conscience that is free from guilt. We as leaders can't keep willfully sinning and call our students to turn from their own sin. We can't fulfill the aim of our charge when we are willfully living in sin because we are pretending to love. Our students need leaders whose minds are filled with the Word of God and who have the guts to come before God like David in Psalm 19:12-13 "12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults. 13 Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression."