Month: October 2011
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Incarnational Ministry?
Sitting at the AYME Conference (Association of Youth Ministry Educators), I was eager to reflect on the chosen theme of incarnation and wrestle with it a bit. Wrestling is a good thing in my mind. We have to get our heads engaged sometimes and challenge those ideas or viewpoints that don’t always make sense to…
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Is youth ministry biblical?
When I posted the link to Greg Stier’s review of the film “Divided” my motivation was the characterization of Jesus as a youth minister. His basis? Evidence in scripture that most of the disciples were under 20 years old. For 25 years (the ones I have been in full time youth ministry) I have been…