What is XP3?
XP3 stands for "eXPerience 3". We believe that there are three things that every student should experience in student ministry (and in life), three things they must have in order for them to have a personal, vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ. Those three things are wonder, discovery and passion.
WONDER speaks to your faith and relationship with God. DISCOVERY speaks to your relationship with yourself and how your daily purpose and choices connect with God's truth. PASSION speaks to your role and responsibility to love and influence those around you. These three issues drive the strategy, resources and content of XP3.
These three things ultimately affect everything we do. They pull at our hearts, drive our behavior and capture our imagination. They are the levers our culture pulls to move us emotionally-to appeal to our souls.
We are all going to give our hearts to something-good or bad-to experience wonder, discovery, and passion. In the Student Ministry, we passionately believe in helping students discover these three principles in the context of their personal relationship with God, in a way that demonstrates their own authentic, growing relationship with Him.
Every series we offer will strategically use these elements so that students move beyond information about God to an actual experience with Him-one that incites wonder, discovery, and passion. We want to incite wonder in the heart of a student in such a way that compels him or her to discover who they are and their passion for influencing others.
WONDER speaks to your faith and relationship with God. DISCOVERY speaks to your relationship with yourself and how your daily purpose and choices connect with God's truth. PASSION speaks to your role and responsibility to love and influence those around you. These three issues drive the strategy, resources and content of XP3.
These three things ultimately affect everything we do. They pull at our hearts, drive our behavior and capture our imagination. They are the levers our culture pulls to move us emotionally-to appeal to our souls.
We are all going to give our hearts to something-good or bad-to experience wonder, discovery, and passion. In the Student Ministry, we passionately believe in helping students discover these three principles in the context of their personal relationship with God, in a way that demonstrates their own authentic, growing relationship with Him.
Every series we offer will strategically use these elements so that students move beyond information about God to an actual experience with Him-one that incites wonder, discovery, and passion. We want to incite wonder in the heart of a student in such a way that compels him or her to discover who they are and their passion for influencing others.
Wonder
Every one of us has a desire to marvel. We are looking for something to amaze us, something to incite wonder. There's a generation of students growing up in today's church who somehow miss the wonder of who God really is and believe that He isn't big enough for their experiences.
Discovery
We are wired for adventure. We are curious from the womb. We want to explore, to see something we have never seen, something that helps us understand new things about ourselves. Many students today never make the discovery of who they are in light of God's truth, and many feel that He isn't relevant to their lives.
Passion
We long to make a connection, to make a difference, to have intimacy, romance, companionship. Many students today fail to engage in a God-given passion to become involved in the lives of others. They don't feel He is real enough for their relationships.
