Moderate Christian BlogrollHere’s some more interesting data on young people leaving the church–not that we haven’t heard it before. The question is just what do we do about it?
I had a similar experience more years ago than I care to remember with my own classmates in elementary school. We were in a conservative Christian school [...]
Many of the regular readers of this blog will know David Taylor, who is the drummer for Banner. Banner involves most of the young men who were once part of Doxology at Pine Forest United Methodist Church, in which Jody’s and my son James was the drummer. David gave his testimony this past [...]
See my entry on this book on the Jevlir Caravansary. This could be of interest to youth leaders and Sunday School teachers especially.
Ben Witherington has an outstanding post on youth ministry titled The 4% Doctrine– Where Are our Evangelical Youth Going?.
Amongst many other excellent things, he says:
And here’s another other factor. You need to draw your water from a deep well. By this I mean that a Christian musician, minister etc. needs to have a deep [...]
One of the blogs I read regularly is Wesley Blog, and Shane has written a post that’s pretty challenging. All his points are good, but I thought many people would be most likely challenged by his comment about numbers. Go take a look at this post and see how your church measures up.
How [...]
I wanted to link directly to a post on gen-X Rising dealing with the term “generation X.” I’ve heard that term criticized many times, but Andrew Thompson thinks it has some considerable positive value.
I suggest checking out his post. As I post this, it’s second from the top post on the blog. [...]
the church can adapt, but a whole new church isn’t needed. not if we see our ministry of the church as full participant into the life of the youth.
. . . says Gavin Richardson in i don’t know, i wasn’t there. I think this entire post deserves reading by all those interested in the [...]
Recently in a committe meeting at my church someone asked this question: Why don’t the youth want to come to worship services?
In response I asked, “Why would they?”
What would make young people want to attend our worship services once they can no longer be forced to attend? I just read an excellent post [...]
