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Features: The Sky is Not Falling, No More Second Hand Faith, Unleashing The Next Great Generation
Ideas: In The News, Ministry & Media, Try This One, DIY, Bible Study
Culture: Trends, Resource Reviews, In The World…, One Resource In-Depth
Voices: Youth Ministry Minute, Blogger Network, Contributors, The 10 List,
Q&A with Justin Mayo, Personal Coaching, Tools, Last Word
No More Secondhand Faith
By Troy Richards
More often than we’d like to admit, our students are learning almost everything they know about the Bible, Jesus, and the gospel through secondhand sources. They need direct experiences with God, but they’re getting filtered rumors of him instead. Here’s how we’ve moved our teaching strategy from secondhand to firsthand.
Finding Your Edge
Mark DeVries
Most of my ministry pals want to be on the “cutting edge”—blazing trails, multiplying effectiveness, and awakening fresh faithfulness. In the words of hockey great Wayne Gretzky, they want to “skate to where the puck is going to be.”
The Bus-Driver’s Rant
Youth Ministry Minute
…Not long ago I was at an annual three-day forum for youth ministry professors—I’ve been an interloper at this gathering for 15 years. One night, all 125 of us loaded onto school buses for a cross-town trip to a Bible college campus, where the “entertainment” for the evening was a panel discussion on “incarnational ministry.” The plan was simple…
