Adoptive Youth Ministry (Youth, Family, and Culture)

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Kids desperately need healthy, committed adults who can help them thrive in their faith and become active participants in the life of the church. This requires the efforts of the whole faith community. Chap Clark, one of the leading voices in youth ministry today, brings together twenty-four experts from a variety of denominations and traditions to offer a comprehensive introduction to adoptive youth ministry, a theologically driven, academically grounded, and practical youth ministry model. The book shows readers how to integrate emerging generations into the family of faith, helping young adults become active participants in God's redemptive community.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 26 janvier 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781493400072
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Cover
Series Page
Youth, Family, and Culture Series Chap Clark, series editor
The Youth, Family, and Culture series examines the broad categories involved in studying and caring for the needs of the young and is dedicated to the preparation and vocational strengthening of those who are committed to the spiritual development of adolescents.
Title Page
Copyright Page
© 2016 by Chap Clark
Published by Baker Academic
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P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.bakeracademic.com
Ebook edition created 2016
Ebook corrections 01.14.2019
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ISBN 978-1-4934-0007-2
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Endorsements
“In Adoptive Youth Ministry some of the finest thinkers and writers in youth and family ministries explore a timely and penetrating metaphor for ministry in today’s world. That metaphor is adoption, and it begs consideration of a strong commitment to faltering families, churches, and communities in our society. Adoptive Youth Ministry summarizes much of recent research, articles, and books. It can hardly be neglected by anyone wanting to be informed about the current state of, and challenges facing, youth ministry.”
— Dean Borgman , founder and director, Center for Youth Studies; author of Foundations for Youth Ministry
“Youth ministry is at a critical turning point. It’s time for pastors, youth leaders, and youth ministry professors to engage in authentic dialogue regarding how to help teenagers embrace Jesus’s message and mission at the deepest core of their beings. Chap Clark’s Adoptive Youth Ministry will stimulate the kinds of discussions that will form and forge the nature of youth ministry for decades to come.”
— Greg Stier , author of Gospelize Your Youth Ministry ; speaker; founder and CEO, Dare 2 Share
“Popular youth ministry models of even a few years ago have quickly become outdated. Chap Clark’s adoption youth ministry paradigm offers a reenvisioned lens through which to see youth ministry—a radically welcoming and inclusive spiritual kinship with teens linked together through a solidarity of love, grace, and mercy. The breadth of Adoptive Youth Ministry thoughtfully and honestly engages this paradigm in dialogue with the social sciences, theology, and youth ministry, addressing trends that show what we in the academy and in the field already know—that teens are not attending church and are not believing and embracing ‘traditional’ faith. With the acceleration of technology, globalization, and instantaneous connections, the field of youth ministry must ever adapt to remain effective, relevant, and authentic. Adoptive Youth Ministry attempts to address these issues and move the conversation forward by answering the question, now what?”
— Fernando Arzola Jr. , dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Nyack College; author of Toward a Prophetic Youth Ministry
“This is not just a book. It’s a youth worker’s toolkit essential for building a deeper and more effective youth ministry.”
— Megan Hutchinson , adult ministries pastor, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach, California
“ Adoptive Youth Ministry is essential reading for anyone working in Christian education. In a single volume it provides a compilation of engaging research that spans the psychosocial nuances necessary to understand both human development and spiritual formation. The standard processes for integrating adolescents in many faith communities have unfortunately proven dysfunctional. Now, more than ever, is the time for a change, and Adoptive Youth Ministry provides the necessary metaphor for conceptualizing this change.”
— Chris King , president, Dallas Christian School
Contents
Cover i
Series Page ii
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Endorsements v
Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Introduction: Adoption—Reenvisioning Youth Ministry and the Family of God Chap Clark 1
Part 1: The Context of Adoptive Youth Ministry 9
1. The Strategy of Adoptive Youth Ministry Chap Clark 11
2. Understanding the Changing Adolescent Steven Bonner 22
3. Welcoming Wounded and Broken Adolescents into the Family of God Marv Penner 39
4. Technology and Adoptive Youth Ministry Bradley Howell 52
5. Screen Time: A Window into Teens’ Dreams Craig Detweiler 67
Part 2: The Call of Adoptive Youth Ministry 83
6. Reflective Youth Ministry: Youth Ministry as Critical, Ongoing, Communal Reflection Almeda M. Wright 85
7. Thinking (Practical) Theology Michael McEntyre 97
8. Youth Ministry, Adoption, and Culture Walt Mueller 115
9. Thinking Ecclesiologically: Teenagers Becoming Part of the Church Mark Cannister 136
10. Thinking Critically about Families and Youth Ministry Allen Jackson 150
11. Thinking Globally: An Asian American Case Study Approach David Jia Hwa Doong and Jinna Sil Lo Jin 165
12. Thinking Long Term Cheryl A. Crawford 180
Part 3: The Practice of Adoptive Youth Ministry 195
13. Adoption Extended: Creating a Welcoming Space Pamela Erwin 197
14. Spiritual Formation: It’s a Matter of Time Tony Jones 212
15. Can I Ask That? Imagining a Church Big Enough for Teenagers’ Hard Questions Kara Powell and Brad Griffin 221
16. A Call to Adoptive Ministry: Middle School Distinctives Heather Flies 233
17. No Church in the Wild: Urban and Multiethnic Contexts as the New Frontier of Youth Ministry Daniel White Hodge 246
18. Adoptive Youth Ministry: A Latin American Perspective Howard Andruejol 256
Part 4: The Skills for Adoptive Youth Ministry 271
19. Adoptive Leadership Bill MacPhee 273
20. The Communication of Adoption: Hearing and Making Known Duffy Robbins 288
21. Teaching for Adoptive Ministry Jay Sedwick 302
22. Rethinking Church Strategies and Structures Steven Argue 316
23. A Call to Adoption: Integration of Youth Ministry to the Church April L. Diaz 335
Notes 347
Scripture Index 369
Subject Index 373
Back Ads 380
Back Cover 382
Acknowledgments
This book has been years—if not a lifetime—in the making. For me, as first a parachurch staff member singularly devoted to inviting teenagers into an authentic, vibrant faith in Jesus Christ, and then as a trainer and teacher for others who shared that same calling, Adoptive Youth Ministry represents a theological evolution for the church and also for me. I therefore have lots of people to thank.
First, to the visionary and impassioned staff and volunteers of Young Life. You taught me the root structure of what we now know as contemporary youth ministry, starting with the early years of Jim Rayburn and passing on what you learned as pioneers of ministry to adolescents: Bill Starr and Bob “Mitch” Mitchell, Jim Shelton, Cliff Anderson, Don and Patty Taylor, Randy Giusta, Shelley Sadler, and countless others. These lessons are alive and well in thousands of men and women who serve Christ on the front lines of ministry around the world.
Thanks to the faculties of Denver Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. Thank you for helping me to see that teaching is the tip of the iceberg and that who we are is what matters most as seminary professors. Thank you also for teaching me how to think, how to reason, how to wrestle, and most of all how to hold that tension between, as Alan Jones puts it, “the dreaming and the coming true.”
Thanks to those youth ministry friends who have encouraged and taught me how to communicate and lead with graceful conviction: Mike and Karla Yaconelli, Tic Long, Wayne Rice, Marv Penner, Duffy Robbins, Walt Mueller, Rich Van Pelt, Doug Fields, Kara Powell, Cheryl Crawford, and Mindy Coates Smith.
To all those people who believe that it is worth time and effort to “waste time” with kids, in the name of and for the sake of Jesus Christ and his kingdom (we call you “youth workers”), you are the gatekeepers for future generations. You are the ushers who invite them to participate in