Another quote to add to the youth ministry handbook from Andrew Root’s book “Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry”: “We know that platitudes are unhelpful, but we often pull them out anyway when we are at a loss for words. It is time to place them on the shelf, for the place-sharing youth minister can no longer [...]
Incarnation and Youth Ministry
April 8, 2009 By 1 Comment
Our unwillingness to acknowledge the cross as well as the incarnation has deceived us into believing that we are justified in neglecting a great many adolescents who at first respond to our offers of friendship with ridicule and aggressive rejection. The incarnation has made these very children our responsibility, our beloved brothers and sisters. We [...]
Prudes and Connoisseurs
October 20, 2007 By Leave a Comment
If a church wants to be relevant to teenage boys, there are plenty of other ways, including handing out pornography and offering beer-on-tap. You could throw in condoms and cigarettes and call it a night. But this raises an important questions: Why Halo 3? Why are exceedingly violent video games par for the course, but [...]
