Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Dr. Vandegriff points out that arguing can actually be a positive thing.
Selected Answer:True
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Students/teenagers need help in making decisions and adults should help them to become good
decision makers.
Selected Answer:True
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
“If our faith is in Christ, then our __________ is in Christ.”
Selected Answer:identity
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following ways should a student pastor help teenagers to think for themselves?
Selected The student pastor should move beyond the teenagers’ beliefs to the reasons behind
Answer:those beliefs and should provide a biblical response for the teenagers to follow.
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
What is the one common regret among believers who converted to the Christian faith as adults?
Selected Answer:That they did not make the decision to follow Christ earlier in life.
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
Which one of the following is a key indication that a young person has made the Christian faith
personally his/her own, rather than solely being something which was passed down from their
parents?
Selected When that young person makes spiritual decisions and they follow those decisions
Answer:even in front of their peers.
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
Parents and youth leaders do not need to be concerned about our youth and the culture at large and
the negative influences through television and music because our youth ministries are so strong.
Selected Answer:False
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
Parents should not allow their emerging teenagers to play sports, as this can allow their teenagers to
become distracted from their school work and the work of the Lord.
Selected Answer:False
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
Approximately what percent of children live in a home where their father does not reside?
Selected Answer:33%
Question 10
2 out of 2 points
Satan desires for young people to live instead of dying, so that he can distract and entertain them as
much as is possible while they are alive.
Selected Answer:False
Question 11
2 out of 2 points
Student ministry leaders should help teenagers in becoming independent while still also encouraging
them to:
Selected Respect their parents and to continue with a healthy dependence on their
Answer: parents.
Question 12
2 out of 2 points
The United Kingdom gave a variety of characteristics of sheep and shepherds. Which is not one of
those ideas?
Selected Answer:Sheep are loyal
Question 13
2 out of 2 points
Parents must be willing to train their teenagers in helping to shape their thinking for the upcoming
battles and pressures in life, but they must also remember that:
Selected Answer:They will have to yield some minor battles while they fight the critical ones.
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
Eugene Peterson states that ministers have abandoned their call in his book:
Selected Answer:Working the Angles
Question 15
2 out of 2 points
“A plurality of shepherds in any flock is not only effective and efficient; there is biblical evidence that
making a big flock seem small is simply good __________.”
Selected Answer:management
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
One of Dr. Vandegriff’s former teenagers was a young man who did not necessarily fit in to the youth
ministry, yet, upon reconnecting ten years later, he found this young man to be a truck driver and
former US Army Ranger.
Selected Answer:True
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
Satan is mainly interested in keeping young people focused on the world and its ways, so that they
make no eternal impact for the kingdom.
Selected Answer:True
Question 18
2 out of 2 points
Which one of the following is a teenager overly concerned about?
Selected Answer:His/her appearance and behavior.
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
Youth workers need to take advantage of social media platforms instead of the older platform of
face-to-face interaction.
Selected Answer:False
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
(Regarding rationale for going into vocational student ministry) “If a person cannot __________ their
calling into student ministry (or any ministry for that matter), they should seriously consider doing
something else.”
Selected Answer:articulate
Question 21
2 out of 2 points
According to the author, anyone who is the sole authority is setting themselves and their
congregation up for disappointment if not failure.
Selected Answer:True
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
Parents and student ministry leaders need to engage the cynicism and discouragement of teenagers
by:
Selected Working with their teenagers by helping them to channel their feelings and to set
Answer:realistic, objective expectations based in the Scriptures, rather than relying on
subjective feelings that might continue to disappoint them.
Question 23
2 out of 2 points
The believer who cultivates sin in his lifestyle is allowing Satan the opportunity to overtake other
areas in the believer’s life.
Selected Answer:True
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
According to Dr. Vandegriff, he has no problem with student ministry leaders being seen as the
heroes to his teenaged children.
Selected Answer:True
Question 25
2 out of 2 points
The believer’s thought life is not where spiritual battle takes place.
Selected Answer:False
