Faith Beyond Youth Group: Five Ways to Form Character and Cultivate Lifelong Discipleship
Help teenagers become adults who boldly live out a robust faith in a watching world
Most typical youth ministries today produce nice, obedient kids who behave themselves--and then leave the church and the faith. Even those who remain struggle to extend their own faith beyond youth group. They seem like "good kids," but their lives and decisions outside youth group aren't oriented toward Jesus.
Clearly, that is not our goal. So what are we doing wrong? And how can we better serve the unique needs of the most anxious, adaptive, and diverse generation in history?
Building on two decades of the Fuller Youth Institute's work and incorporating extensive new research and interviews, Faith Beyond Youth Group answers these questions by
● identifying the reasons youth ministry often fails both short-term and long-term
● offering five ways adult youth leaders can cultivate character for a lifetime of growing closer to Jesus
● exploring how to how to cultivate trust, model growth, teach for transformation, practice together, and make meaning
If you're tired of youth ministry that fails to change lives, it's time to change youth ministry.
Most typical youth ministries today produce nice, obedient kids who behave themselves--and then leave the church and the faith. Even those who remain struggle to extend their own faith beyond youth group. They seem like "good kids," but their lives and decisions outside youth group aren't oriented toward Jesus.
Clearly, that is not our goal. So what are we doing wrong? And how can we better serve the unique needs of the most anxious, adaptive, and diverse generation in history?
Building on two decades of the Fuller Youth Institute's work and incorporating extensive new research and interviews, Faith Beyond Youth Group answers these questions by
● identifying the reasons youth ministry often fails both short-term and long-term
● offering five ways adult youth leaders can cultivate character for a lifetime of growing closer to Jesus
● exploring how to how to cultivate trust, model growth, teach for transformation, practice together, and make meaning
If you're tired of youth ministry that fails to change lives, it's time to change youth ministry.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1540903516
ISBN13:9781540903518
Release Date:November 2023
Publisher:Baker Books
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Required reading for all who work with youth/students/young adults
Published by Christine Anne , 1 year ago
The work done here is well done.
It is well-researched and offers space for everyone reading to learn and grow. In addition, they do comment on some of the more complex processes of addressing issues currently in the church that will plague it as they open with the toughest to overcome: character, which requires the work of building new determinants.
The work of creating a space of authenticity and empathy has been heard, but the way it addresses the direction of needing to fulfill the work of the understanding of character from examples of the Bibles that have support in seeing the difficulty and challenge of humanity while finding hope and examples of faith being imperfect and beautiful.
Good reminders: it takes a lot of consistent offerings to support building these more authentic relationships and an offering of not expertise in space but shared community of equitable desires for all involved.
Recommended reading for all people working with teens in the church and outside of it.
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