An introduction to the adventure
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Whether your journey is just beginning or well underway, This Way to Youth Ministry helps you focus your efforts and improve your ministry to kids. Twenty-two-year ministry veteran Duffy Robbins translates theology, theory, and experience into a straightforward, academic text that equips you to navigate the challenges and opportunities that come when working with kids.
The Essential Guide to Difficult Terrain
Youth Ministry. The words aren't big enough to hold the phrase's meaning. Youth workers are trailblazers striding into dark jungles that terrify the rest of the congregation. Walking mountain paths, climbing summits, and shooting the rapids, you march forward driven by a mission to bring the future into His fold.
This Way to Youth Ministry, is the most complete, academic text for this exhilarating work. Twenty-two-year ministry veteran Duffy Robbins explains the theology, theory, and practice of youth ministry and helps you discover how to:
- Identify your calling to ministry
- Cultivate the traits and training that make a good youth pastor
- Set boundaries and maintain priorities
- Understand the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical development of adolescents
- Navigate youth culture and postmodernism
- Understand youth ministry in relation to the rest of the Church
- Promote spiritual discipline in your students
- Develop and apply a personalized ministry philosophy
Part theory, part application, this extensive, academic text shows you both the big picture and tiny details of making ministry work. Whether your journey is just beginning or well under way, This Way to Youth Ministry is the book that will help with everything that lies ahead.
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Unit One: Introduction
1. Down the Great Unknown
2. A Journey Marked by "Blazes"
3. The Call of the Wild
4. Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares
Unit Two: Understanding the Terrain
5. Changing Places: Adventures in the "Land of There But Not There"
6. Converging Currents: Exploring Adolescent Development
7. Exploring the Inner Passages of Adolescence: Moral Choices and Emerging Identity
8. Reading the Water: Thinking About Culture
9. Reading the Water: Scouting the River
10. Introducing the Church: Holy Ground or Unholy Grind?
Unit Three: Charting a Course for the Journey
11. Adolescent Spirituality: The Odyssey of Growing Faith
12. Youth Ministry Orienteering: Developing a Philosophy of Youth Ministry
13. A Biblical Philosophy of Ministry: A Journey with Compass and Compassion
14. The Corps of Discovery: Working with a Team
15. Conclusion: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
Bibliography
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