Red Bull's Project X "Youth Ministry"

If you have ever played competitive sports and were remotely successful, you should be very familiar with these two words: HARD WORK and youth ministry is no different. I saw this video of Shaun White (who by the way, is the best snowboarder in the world) talking about how he wanted to build a facility where he could train harder than he ever has before. Shaun realized to win this years Winter X Games, he would have to do things that no one had ever done and land things that had never landed before. He knew he was going to have to push the limits of snowboarding further and faster than its ever been pushed before. Shaun wanted to work harder this off season than he ever had before. This off season realization was made into a documentary called: Red Bull Project X, which is so AMAZING!! The whole time I was watching this, I was thinking "We need to have the same approach to youth ministry as Shaun does to snowboarding"!!! When I see someone who is at the top of his game, still trying to push themselves to become better, it inspires me. It is VERY easy to go through the motions in ministry, in others words just barley do enough to get by. In my opionion, you have two options, You can settle and use another youth pastors best or you can push the limits of youth ministry and be the best!! Question, "What are you doing that is going to seperate yourself from every other youth pastor in the country"? -Just something to think about. To see the video click this ------> Training