{"id":247,"date":"2015-03-03T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/?p=247"},"modified":"2015-05-28T18:49:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:49:45","slug":"why-youth-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/why-youth-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Youth Ministry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nativeleader.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-211 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/Native-Leader-Banner-2-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"Native Leader Banner 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\" style=\"color: #3a4459;text-align: center\">by\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3a4459\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nativeleader.org\/russell-board\/\">Russell Board<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3a4459\">This time I\u2019d like to initiate a discussion about the goals and purposes of youth ministry. If you\u2019d like to join, please listen to the interview at this link:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3a4459\"><a style=\"color: #3a4459\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehorseinn.org\/whiarchives\/2014whi1211jun22.mp3\" >http:\/\/www.whitehorseinn.org\/whiarchives\/2014whi1211jun22.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3a4459\">Provocative quotes from the interview:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #3a4459\">\n<li>\u201cThe churches with no youth programs are retaining their young people into their 20s at a higher rate that those with big youth programs.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDigital media have ghettoized young people, and thereby delayed the onset of adulthood.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf you want to become an adult, you have to hang around adults.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe don\u2019t need to tailor discipleship or worship to youth, or to anyone; we are called to tailor ourselves to discipleship and worship.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe embrace of youth culture can lead to the uncritical embrace of pop culture, which is driven by consumerism and immediate self-gratification.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #3a4459\">Questions to consider and discuss:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #3a4459\">\n<li>Why have youth ministry?<\/li>\n<li>What makes youth ministry different from adult ministry?<\/li>\n<li>What are the purposes and goals of youth ministry?<\/li>\n<li>What are the pluses and minuses of shaping the worship experience to what is familiar and comfortable to youth culture?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of youth ministry will help to incorporate youth into the larger church?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of youth ministry will help youth to become mature Christian adults?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #3a4459\">Please respond with comments on the interview or answers to the questions above. Thanks for joining the discussion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; by\u00a0Russell Board This time I\u2019d like to initiate a discussion about the goals and purposes of youth ministry. If you\u2019d like to join, please listen to the interview at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world-missions","7":"entry"},"title_es":"","content_es":"","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Ar-3Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}