The End of Youth Ministry? (Theology for the Life of the World) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Youth Ministry? (Theology for the Life of the World) write by Andrew Root. This book was released on 2020-03-17. The End of Youth Ministry? (Theology for the Life of the World) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is youth ministry actually for? And does it have a future? Andrew Root, a leading scholar in youth ministry and practical theology, went on a one-year journey to answer these questions. In this book, Root weaves together an innovative first-person fictional narrative to diagnose the challenges facing the church today and to offer a new vision for youth ministry in the 21st century. Informed by interviews that Root conducted with parents, this book explores how parents' perspectives of what constitutes a good life are affecting youth ministry. In today's culture, youth ministry can't compete with sports, test prep, and the myriad other activities in which young people participate. Through a unique parable-style story, Root offers a new way to think about the purpose of youth ministry: not happiness, but joy. Joy is a sense of experiencing the good. For youth ministry to be about joy, it must move beyond the youth group model and rework the assumptions of how identity and happiness are imagined by parents in American society.
Taking Theology to Youth Ministry
Taking Theology to Youth Ministry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Theology to Youth Ministry write by Andrew Root. This book was released on 2012-08-21. Taking Theology to Youth Ministry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even if you know you’re called to youth ministry and are passionate about the students in your group, you’ve probably had a few of those moments when you’ve wondered why you’re doing certain things in your ministry, or wondered why you’re even doing youth ministry in the first place. If you’ve ever stopped to ask, “What’s the point of youth ministry?” ... In Taking Theology to Youth Ministry, Andrew Root invites you along on a journey with Nadia—a fictional youth worker who is trying to understand the “why” behind her ministry. Her narrative, along with Root’s insights, help you uncover the action of God as it pertains to your own youth ministry, and encourage you to discover how you can participate in that action. As you join this theological journey, you’ll find yourself exploring how theology can and should influence the way you do youth ministry.
Taking the Cross to Youth Ministry
Taking the Cross to Youth Ministry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking the Cross to Youth Ministry write by Andrew Root. This book was released on 2012-08-21. Taking the Cross to Youth Ministry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Think about sin and the cross—the way that salvation changes who we are and how God sees us. It’s a central part of our faith, and yet it’s one of the most confusing and difficult things to teach. Especially to a room full of teenagers. In Taking the Cross to Youth Ministry, Andrew Root invites you along on a journey with Nadia—a fictional youth worker who is wrestling with how to present the cross to her own students in a meaningful way. Using Nadia’s narrative, along with his own insights, Root helps you reimagine how the cross, sin, and salvation can be taught to students in a way that leads them to embrace a lifestyle that chases after Jesus, rather than creating teenagers who just try to “be good.”
Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry
Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry write by Andrew Root. This book was released on 2007-10-08. Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Andrew Root reviews the history of relational/incarnational youth ministry in American evangelicalism and recasts the practice as one of "place-sharing"--not so much "earning the right to be heard" as honoring the human dignity of youth and locating God in their midst.
Foundations for Youth Ministry
Foundations for Youth Ministry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foundations for Youth Ministry write by Dean Borgman. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Foundations for Youth Ministry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dean Borgman, a nationally known youth ministry expert, offers a new edition of his influential classic. Reaching a broadly ecumenical audience, this book challenges readers to think about the theological nature of youth ministry. Questions for discussion and reflection are included. This thoroughly updated edition was previously published as When Kumbaya Is Not Enough. Praise for the first edition "Writing with the lens of a theologian, the heart of a pastor, and welcome doctrinal breadth, Borgman has provided a 'field book' of pastoral theologies that takes seriously the social systems shaping the lives of adolescents. This book is a significant step toward the long-awaited conversation about theology and youth ministry in postmodern culture."--Kenda Creasy Dean, Princeton Theological Seminary; author of Almost Christian "In this excellent work Borgman brings theological integrity, depth, and years of wisdom like nothing else I have seen in our field."--Jim Burns, author of Teenology: The Art of Raising Great Teenagers
