Month: November 2007
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J.I. Packer on Anglicanism
First, Anglicanism is biblical. Anglicanism says to the world: “Show us anything in Scripture that should be taught and that we are not teaching, and we will teach it. Show us anything we are teaching that is contrary to Scripture, and we will stop teaching it.” The Bible, straightforwardly interpreted as revelation from God through…
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Tis the season…
Christmas is the perfect opportunity to review the gospel in a crystal clear way with students. Check out an evangelistic booklet written by Rico Tice & Barry Cooper focussing on who Jesus was, why he came and what our response to him should be. It might provide fuel for your teaching this season. Read it…
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reThink – Is Student Ministry Working by Steve Wright and Chris Graves – Part 2
More from Andy’s blog (both posted with his permission) Chapter 4 is one of the key parts of this book. Its focus is on how to being the transition to a biblical centered, parent partnership, student development ministry. The authors write, “The goal for many of our ministries has become to get students to attend,…
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reThink – Is Student Ministry Working by Steve Wright and Chris Graves – Part 1
From Andy Morgan’s blog… Chp 1 – The issue for the authors is that the current method of student ministry is not working. The number of students who remain believers after college is dropping dramatically. The authors suggest 4 gauges which will indicate whether there is a problem or not: 1. Student retention rates2. Student…
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What is our calling?
One of the things I have been grappling with is exactly what might be the future calling of youth ministers. If we believe all that is being written and the studies that suggest the end of youth ministry as we know it, the question becomes “what is our future?” Mark Yaconelli wants us to get…
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Ministries of distraction?
Noticing young people’s discomfort with adult forms of faith and desperately seeking to keep youth engaged, some churches develop ministries of distraction. Inspired by parachurch youth ministries from the 1950s, like Youth for Christ and Young Life (whose founder, Jim Rayburn, once wrote a book entitled It’s a Sin to Bore a Kid), ministries of…
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Activities, lies, and spelling
I broke one of my cardinal rules yesterday. Namely, that of not reading feedback immediately afterward an event. I am prone to take things personally when they are really fresh on my mind and vulnerable when I have not had enough sleep. However, I broke the rule in order to get something into the next…
