Seminary, Ordination, and Denominationalism
The blogosphere was still abuzz on this topic for another week. If you’ve missed out on the conversation, check out my links here. If I missed any posts, drop a note in the comments.
- A condensed and modified version of my Irrelevance of Seminary series at GoingtoSeminary.com.
- A pastor responds to my post over at GoingtoSerminary.com
- Reflections on Adam’s Ordination – This time by Tim.
- Weighing in on Ordination – Erik posts his thoughts.
- The Ordination Process in the PC(USA) – By Lars Rood, someone who has been there, didn’t do it, and is back again.
- Reconsider Ordination. Now. – Tony Jones is still at it this week.
- An (Anti-) Ordination Sermon – By Tony Jones.
- Tony Jones responds to comments about his recent ordination posts.
- A female seminarian on its relevance
- A graphical representation of denominationalism – And some good commentary as well.
- Ordination in the Didache – Tony says the Didache doens’t support ordination.
Youth Ministry
- Youth Specialties is having a garage sale– Live in Southern California? YS might have stuff you need on the cheap: youth ministry stuff, books, office supplies, and who knows what sorts of random stuff.
- The Art of Small: How to Make an Impact – Those of us in youth ministry often battle feelings of inadequacy because of the size of our group. Some good thoughts on smallness here.
- Rethinking Church Camp – A good list of links from the guys at Rethinking Youth Ministry. Good things to consider if you are doing a camp this year.
- The Difference Between Youth & Adult Ministry – Jeremy disagrees with Desiring God and says that there are fundamental differences in youth and adult ministry.
- Josh Griffin on preparing a youth sermon.
- Student Teaching Pool – Adam has a simple but radical idea.
- Film School – Glory, Dixon Kinser is posting again. Here’s the first part in the Film School series, The Dark Night.
- Chris finished his series on the jobs of a small group leader. Here’s part 3 and part 4.
- Shifting from Sacred to Secular/Spiritual – Dan continues his series on shifts in youth ministry.
Miscellaneous – Church, mission, theology, other
- Bad Habits of Christendom Evangelism – David Fitch weighs in.
- Help Doug write a book on evangelism – Surely you have an opinion.
- A brilliant tip for being productive – I tried this one yesterday morning and it worked great.
- Rethinking Church – Adam points us to a great video. I used it as a launching point for high school Sunday school this morning.
- I also used this great, provocative post from Shaun Groves in Sunday school as well. (I responded yesterday here)
- Church of the World and Not of the Church – Adam McLane has more great thoughts. And guess what? Used… it… in… Sunday school.
So what you’re trying to say is that my blog provided a Sunday School lesson for a week? That’s awesome. I’m a little jealous, I miss teaching students week to week.
Yeah, this was one of those black hole weeks where we were in between topics. I’ve been wanting to do something on the whole idea of rethinking church and then this week I came across all three of those posts and decided to use them as part of my material.
It actually will work really well with the mini-series we are going to start to prepare for our mission trip the last week in June.
Oh, and I didn’t even get to use your “Church of the World” post this week. We ran out of time. I might bring it back up on the mission trip as we transition back to home.