it's time for the youth ministry experiment to be over
This blog posted an interview with Mark Yaconelli in which he said this:
I think it’s time for youth ministry to take all of it’s idealism and creativity and wisdom and give it away to the church. I think it’s time for the youth ministry experiment to be over. It’s time youth ministry claimed itself as the revolutionary arm of the church…and then refuse to be segregated from the rest of the church. Every study in the past fifty years shows that it’s an ecology of faithful, intergenerational relationships that best form young people into Christians. So it’s time to stop being segregated. It’s time for youth ministry to end and the whole church to begin. This may happen by youth ministry joining the church, or by the church joining youth ministry.
I think we are making pretty good progress on this at my church, but I’m really wondering how it is all going to hang together with the anticipated growth this autumn. I would love to see examples of this being put into practice in churches sized 200 or larger.
Via Losing My Religion .
27 July 2007 Jeff Gill
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