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  • The Theology of Personhood (Think Tank 2012)

    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 ...

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    Youth Minister as Equipper of the Household of Faith (Think Tank 2012)

    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 ...

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    Ready or Not (Think Tank 2012)

    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 ...

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    Youth Ministry as Healing and Restoration (Think Tank 2012)

    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 ...

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    The Weakness of a Domesticated Gospel (Think Tank 2012)

    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 ...

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    Youth Ministry as the Great Co-Mission (Think Tank 2012)

    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 ...

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    Wrestling the Holy Bible to an Aha! Moment (Think Tank 2012)

    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 ...

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    The Need for Ecclesiology (Think Tank 2012)

    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 ...

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    Findings from Think Tank 2012: 26 issues that will affect youth ministry in the next decade

    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, ...

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