Building disciples

So - where do I begin? This coming weekend is my Corps(church) annual Youth retreat. Its a nice, fun, and often cold(come on its in January!) weekend away from the city. A time to chill with old friends and hopefully meet some new ones. Its also a time to sit through a few sessions and possibly get something from them(?). I make this a question because I am wondering how much the teens actually do get out of these weekends away...other than no sleep and lots of time to hang.
My biggest complaint with the church(sorry,random tangent! This will-hopefully-tie in together), or at least mine, is that my generation was not discipled(and don't worry, I'm not going to use this blog as a complaint fest!). Why is that? We were brought to program after program(and we all know that The Salvation Army has TONS of programs), event after event, but where did it get us? Good musicians who fill spots in the band or songsters??? Or aggressive, uncompromising Christians who are ready to bare all for Jesus??? Definitely not the latter(at least not for most of us).
For some reason we were led out to pasture and when we grew up we were left there to fend for ourselves, to feed ourselves and be expected to take hold and lead those youngen's coming up behind us. But have you really taken a good look at them? This younger generation are nothing like what we were. Can we relate? Should we even bother? Wow! I'm asking way too many questions. But I need the answers!! I need to know that my fellow 20 somethings are finally going to get off their asses and come to terms with Jesus. That they are going to start loving Him, spending time with Him, teaching about Him. Geez, we all grew up in the church...how did we miss out?
I recently read an interview that was done with a friend of mine - Drew Forster. You can find it here: http://www.armybarmy.com/JAC/
Near the end he starts talking about his Soldiers Covenant and how it affects his warfare. To be honest with you all, up until I read this, I haven't thought a whole lot about the Covenant that I signed almost 13 years ago. I don't even think that I have it anymore(it was handed to me in sroll form...and they expected me, at 14, to frame and keep it? Yeah right!). But I have been thinking about it a lot since reading this and thinking about how I can effectively build disciples in my church when I am not considering this as my warfare. Here is my favorite part:

"Forget the worship band. Forget the brass band. Forget heritage and tradition for the sake of themselves. Forget trying to compete with middle class suburban churches and mega-churches and cool hip "we meet in a movie theater" churches. Forget what we wear. Frankly we're far too self-conscious."

And here is what I am striving for:
"martyr-like sacrifice, spiritual power, dare-devil faith, of pure, deep joy, of burning love, of holy triumph."

Here's praying that I will keep my covenant and be able to aid in the discipling of those youngen's that I spend so much time with. This world needs them to be spiritual beings, not pew-fillers.

Blessings.