Poetic Youth Ministry

Poetic Youth Ministry
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : 9781498202442
ISBN-13 : 1498202446
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Book Synopsis Poetic Youth Ministry by : Jason Lief

Download or read book Poetic Youth Ministry written by Jason Lief and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current research shows what many in the Christian community already know: young people are leaving the church. This raises important questions: Why are young people leaving? How can the church respond? Some have responded to this issue out of a posture of fear and anxiety, trying to find new ways to strengthen doctrinal beliefs or practices of faith formation and discipleship. What if the best response isn't to strengthen our theology or tighten our hold on the lives of young people? What if the best response is a posture of love that lets young people go? Using the insights of philosopher Charles Taylor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Poetic Youth Ministry argues that the church must take seriously the formative power of social and cultural patterns that shape the social imaginaries of young people. Rather than seeing the problem as young people abandoning faith, the Christian community should see the issue as young people exchanging one form of faith for another. This allows the church to approach the issue from a posture of love, calling young people to embrace their identity in the new humanity revealed in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.


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