Previously in Group Magazine…
The Secret Dreams of Teenagers, by Rick Lawrence
Don’t Pick On My Little Brother, by Greg Stier
I Want Both
By Mark Devries
So what—or who—is the problem here? I’ve begun to wonder: Do we really have to choose between deep and wide? Could our best bet for going wide be, ironically, going deep? Spiritually shallow programming no longer works as an attraction method, and it certainly doesn’t work as a retention method, if it ever did.
The Secret Dreams of Teenagers
By Rick Lawrence
The eye-opening results from our annual survey of more than 20,000 Christian teenagers reveal what they’d love more of from your ministry, and what they could do without. Thier top choice will surprise you, but their bottom choice may shock you.
The Beauty of a Mangled ‘Witness’
By Rick Lawrence
The other day I met with Casey Franklin, a Denver youth pastor who’s had a typically epic 15-year run in youth ministry—his stories of incredible impact and incredible heartbreak dance the Tango together. Both of us, we discovered, have sometimes wondered how to communicate the “down-and-dirty” realities of serving at a church to people on “the outside.”
