About this title: Youth ministry isn't about what to say, what to do, or how to be; it's about serving the needs of the students God has put in your life. This book is an attitude overhaul that creates a more organic approach to youth ministry that helps you create meaningful silence, covenant communities, and contemplative activities that allow your students ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Zondervan/Youth Specialties
Date Published: 5/1/2006
ISBN-13:9780310267775ISBN:0310267773
Description: Very Good. 0310267773 HC2D. Very nice copy. Apparently never read. Binding tight. No marks. Dustjacket is Very Good. Multiple copies available. Contains a commemorative note upon graduation pasted in to the flyleaf. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Youth Specialties
Date Published: 2006-04-14
ISBN-13:9780310267775ISBN:0310267773
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780310267775. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SPCK PUBLISHING Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780281057825ISBN:0281057826
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. (192 pages) explores contemplative prayer, discernment, spiritual direction, covenant community, spiritual practice and sabbath-living as a way of resourcing ministries with youth. this book offers some of the experience, teaching, praying and thinking behind the spirituality project. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Spck Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780281057825ISBN:0281057826
Description: New. Explores contemplative prayer, discernment, spiritual direction, covenant community, spiritual practice and Sabbath-living as a way of resourcing ministries with youth. This book offers some of the experience, teaching, praying and thinking behind the... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Spck Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780281057825ISBN:0281057826
Description: New. Explores contemplative prayer, discernment, spiritual direction, covenant community, spiritual practice and Sabbath-living as a way of resourcing ministries with youth. This book offers some of the experience, teaching, praying and thinking behind the... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Zondervan
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780310267775ISBN:0310267773
Description: pp. 251. Type of binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Details: Discounted new book. This is located at our second store; please anticipate extra delivery time. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: ZONDERVAN PUB HOUSE
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780310267775ISBN:0310267773
Description: New. Youth ministry isn't about what to say, what to do, or how to be; it's about serving the needs of the students God has put in your life. This book is an attitude overhaul that creates a more organic approach to youth ministry that helps you create me... read more
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"Contemplative Youth Ministry is written to provide Christian youth workers with both a theoretical framework for and the practical application of a "contemplative" youth ministry model. Yaconelli posits his model as an alternative to the two other ones he finds common today: the "Consumer model," where ministries try to keep students busy "having fun," in hopes they will stay out of trouble and become moral; and the "Content model," which is hierarchical and "Word driven," focusing on doctrine and conformity but weak on relationships. He proposes the "Contemplative model" which places the focus on developing relationships, "being present" with people rather than trying to "fix" problems, incorporating spiritual practices like lectio divina, centering prayer, spiritual direction, and silence.
Eui likes Yaconelli's emphasis on the importance of the minister's own relationship with God, believing this provides an infinite source of love and wisdom. However, she also feels it is a bit idealistic, with the complicacy of human relationships and elements of church politics rarely allowing a minister to be free enough to solely focus on God. Instead, they are often pulled back-and-forth between parents' anxieties about the moral education of their children and youth's anxieties about becoming an adult with a "boring" life. Chris appreciates its emphasis on listening and "being" with students, and developing a praying, discerning, and reflective community of adult leaders. He is also excited to try out some of the exercises mentioned in the book with his own students. We both agree that this is an excellent book that will help re-focus a youth worker on God's determined, patient love for youth.
"This book was recommended to me by another 'solo pastor' working in a small church and it does not disappoint.
I really like Yaconelli's approach to youth ministry, especially his consideration that much of what we do with you is designed to manage anxiety. The author outlines an approach to youth ministry that values kids for who they are...reminding us that they have things to teach us.
Much of what is written transcends youth ministry and outlines a great approach not only to pastoral ministry but to living the christian life."
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