My friend Brit is looking for resources to help him incorporate a mentoring component into his youth ministry. So far, he is planning on using some resources from Faith Inkubators and the Full Circle Triple-A Training, but he’s looking for more. Please drop me a comment, or go to Brit’s blog and let him know […]
Book Review: Effective Youth Ministry by Roland Martinson
Rollie Martinson’s book Effective Youth Ministry: A Congregational Approach offers a snapshot of leading youth ministry thought from the past. Published in 1988, the material contains both timeless foundations for youth ministry alongside some now anachronistic suggestions for implementation. Though he is currently Academic Dean at Luther Seminary, Martinson was Professor of Pastoral Care and […]
A Concrete Way to Implement Change in Youth Ministry
I spend lots of time thinking, theorizing, and analyzing about youth ministry. Looking at trends and how we got to where we are today and dreaming about the future are invigorating exercises for me. But ultimately, we need some concrete ways to move from where we are to where we want to be. Most of […]
Further Thoughts on the 3 Spheres of Youth Ministry
Some more thoughts from my post last week: Parachurch ministries are not enough. Youth ministry organizations that are not a part of an established church (Young Life, Youth for Christ, etc.) cannot expect to be able to fully nurture faith in adolescents. Though most of them state the goal that they try to connect their […]
Linkworthy – 6/1/09
Here we are, a day late: Seminaries, Ordination, and Denominationalism Are Professional Ministers Toxic Assets? – Great thoughts here. Shared Pastoral Leadership – Good thoughts from Dan Mayes, an ordained pastor. One Thing I Never Learned in Seminary – From Adam Walker Cleaveland. This time it doesn’t have to do with ordination. Youth Ministry Bad […]
Persistance Pays
In April I made a commitment to try to post at least once a day, and since then I’ve seen great increases in quality on my blog in all sorts of areas: my writing, creativity, people’s comments and interaction with my posts, and blog traffic. Although I did miss two days this month, I almost […]
More Rollie Martinson on a Theology of Youth Ministry
I’m not sure if my weekly list of links is going to make it up by the end of the day or not. To hold you over, here’s more from Rollie Martinson’s 1988 classic Effective Youth Ministry: A Congregational Approach: Youth ministry flows from the gospel message and mission as worship, witness, teaching, communion, and […]
Rollie Martinson on a Theology of Youth Ministry
I’m reading Rollie Martinson’s 1988 youth ministry classic Effective Youth Ministry: A Congregational Approach for this class I’m about to take (do you see a trend here?). I’m not very far through it yet, but so far it reads as a fairly robust and grounded approach to ministry (i.e not 20 years old). Here’s a […]
The 3 Spheres of Youth Ministry
Luther Seminary continues to put out quality research related to youth ministry. I got to participate in one of the webinars they have just developed to make this research accessible to the average church leader called the Exemplary Youth Ministry Online Seminar. In this one-hour seminar they go over the basics of the Exemplary Youth […]
Book Review: The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity
I just finished another book I have to read for class, and this time it is Douglas John Hall’s The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity. I believe this class is more skewed towards ecclesiology, so I assume the instructor assigned this brief book (it’s only sixty-six pages, and has small pages at […]
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