“We have come with some confidence to believe that a significant part of Christianity in the United States is actually only tenuously Christian in any sense that it is seriously connected to the actual historical Christian tradition… It is not ...
by Andrew Zirschky Editor's Note: Read Teens and Social Technology: Searching for Intimacy - Part 1 and Part 2 here. In a faceless face-to-face world, young people are turning to technology to search for relationships that are meaningful and intimate. ...
by Andrew Zirschky Editor's Note: Read Teens and Social Technology: Searching for Intimacy - Part 1 and Part 3 here. Teenagers don’t want technology, they want what technology promises: Meaningful access to real people and relationships. This was our conclusion ...
by Andrew Zirschky Editor’s Note: Read Teens and Social Technology: Searching for Intimacy – Part 2 and Part 3 here. It should be no surprise that many youth workers believe that social media hold the key to better connections and ...
Note: This lesson is a sample from Hollow Faith: How Andy Griffith, Facebook, and the American Dream neutered the Gospel Learning Objectives To remind the students the depth and ...
Note: This is a sample chapter from Hollow Faith: How Andy Griffith, Facebook, and the American Dream neutered the Gospel All Eyes On Me “Someone has to tell teenagers ...
What is the most powerful form of communicating the Gospel? Preaching? Teaching? Studying scripture? While all of those are adequate, I believe that the most powerful form is testifying and witnessing to God's work in our lives, because testimony gives ...
Editor's Note: The content of this article was developed in Advanced Studies in Youth, Church and Culture taught by Andrew Zirschky at Memphis Theological Seminary in partnership with CYMT. To learn more about the CYMT graduate residency, visit cymt.horton.webservice.team. by ...
by Will Penner Approximate length: 40 minutes Primary Theme: Temptation Additional Themes: Sin, Evil, Satan Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11 All throughout the Bible, we find stories of people being tempted. The whole book of Job recounts a fierce battle on Satan's ...
Editor's Note: The content of this article was developed in Advanced Studies in Youth, Church and Culture taught by Andrew Zirschky at Memphis Theological Seminary in partnership with CYMT. To learn more about the CYMT graduate residency, visit cymt.horton.webservice.team. by ...
by Jill Altom We recently embarked upon an ambitious task to journey with our youth up to the Cumberland Mountains to learn and practice Sabbath. The retreat had a simple plan: eat, sleep, rest, pray, and play. Despite its simplicity ...
Human flourishing and theology of the body Currently, the trend we see in both youth ministry and the church at large in regards to issues of physical behaviors (especially, but not exclusively, sexual) is one of policing said behaviors in ...
The church faces the same issue as many public schools: Who helps with the homework when the student goes home? How much of it gets lost or forgotten by the next day of school because there is no reinforcement within ...
The changing possibilities for the profession of youth ministry "In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." (1) The ...
What would it mean to envision youth ministry as healing and restoration—to see youth ministry as grounded in a theology of restoration between oneself and God, others, and even the cosmos? The youth worker in this understanding would accept the ...
When the Christian story no longer seems compelling The looming crisis in youth ministry is that young people have examined the church and judged it to be inauthentic and irrelevant. In spite of our best efforts, young people in our ...
Radically local but intentionally global Our understanding of mission within youth ministry should be highly contextualized at the local level but also open to learning from the global context. The challenge within this approach is to practice co-mission: seeing ourselves ...
Finding ourselves and one another in God's story We have domesticated the Bible. We are teaching a one-dimensional Bible. We've left out the lament, the trouble, the danger, the conflict, and the drama, and along with it the beauty, the ...
It's the end of the Church as we know it, and they (youth) feel fine. The Western church is an inconsequential place in the life of many students. The research from the NSYR (National Study of Youth and Religion) points ...
In January 2012, the Center for Youth Ministry Training held our fourth annual Lilly Laboratory Think Tank. Youth ministry practitioners and academics for across the country came together to discuss the future of youth ministry. Prior to gathering in Nashville, ...
