……you can text message faster than you can type.
……you had/have/ or will have a goatee or a soul patch.

……you have 1 myspace, 1 facebook, and 2 aim screen names all for “ministry purposes”.
……you have put on a few lbs. because you have arranged one too many youth group meetings with pizza.
……you own Purpose Driven Youth Ministry because you thought it would fix all your youth ministry programmatic problems.
……you own a pair of vans slip on shoes. Yes they are checkered too.
……you love any innovative technology gadgets (ipods, iphones, laptops, pdas, wii,)
…..your car is trashed.
…..you start any conversation with “hey….bro/sister……what is up?”
…..you go over your cell phone minutes and text messages every month.
…..you have on-hand Bibles every where–your office, your car, church bathroom, the youth room, and in the church van.
…..your clothes smell like Starbucks 65% of the week.
I am open for more additions to the list.

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May 16, 2008 at 6:05 am
Drew
… you play guitar. Or at least G C D chords.
… you know all of Chris Tomlin’s songs by heart.
May 16, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Matt Cleaver
Crap. I was afraid of this…
I’m not a youth pastor.
May 16, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Lance Ahl
I’m almost a youth pastor but no patch or vans makes me not fit in
May 17, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Yvette
…you know the content of permission slips by heart.
…you are the first one called every time something gets broken at the church.
May 19, 2008 at 4:42 am
brian l.
you say “WTF” a lot
May 28, 2008 at 1:32 am
Jen VC
good list!
-you find yourself talking about bathroom humor at group meals whether youth are present or not
-also, about the soul patch/shaved head combo, don’t assume all youth pastors are men
May 28, 2008 at 3:22 pm
jztothejc
Jen
- i typically do not assume all youth pastors are men. i was more or less joking about the reality of how the male youth pastors love facial hair.
-what would be a common trait of all women youth pastors?