Description: Youth ministry has increasingly lost touch with its
origins in the way of Jesus and the social practices intrinsic to
Christian discipleship, and has instead substituted layers of
""Jesus talk,"" middle class values, fun and games, and doses of
""warm fellow-feeling."" Awakening Youth Discipleship articulates
the history of this domestication of youth and ministry. Mahan,
Warren, and White tell a story of the ways in which our society has
colluded to shape a domesticated adolescence. The authors believe a
Christian response to this challenge must be multilevel, addressing
the problem at three levels--society, church, and individual. The
authors propose reclaiming practices of discernment that both
engage congregations in social awareness and involve individuals in
discerning fuller vocational opportunities than those allowed by
popular cultural norms. Endorsements: ""Awakening Youth
Discipleship is a terrific, troublesome, hopeful book, offered with
characteristic thoughtfulness by three prophets in our midst.
Drawing from decades of teaching and research in youth ministry,
Brian Mahan, Michael Warren, and David White make a provocative
case for youth ministry that practices, as Daniel Berrigan puts it,
""the upside-down hermeneutics of Jesus Christ."" Awakening Youth
Discipleship topples many of youth ministry's most sacred cows, and
offers strategies that help young people (and the rest of us)
resist the deformative power of consumerism. These views are seldom
voiced in youth ministry--but our ability to reflect Christ to and
with young people absolutely depends upon hearing them."" --Kenda
Creasy Dean, Associate Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture at
Princeton Theological Seminary and author of Practicing Passion:
Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church (Eerdman) and Youth and
the Church of ""Benign Whatever-ism"" (Oxford) ""Brian Mahan, Mike
Warren, and David White invite us to engage in an increasingly rare
and dangerous spiritual practice: thinking. Why do we define
teenagers by what they consume? Why does youth ministry feel like a
finishing school for the middle class? Who profits from keeping
teenagers nice? Where would Jesus shop? Like Jesus, the authors
walk us up the steps of the sacred temples, tune our ears to the
clink of the money-changers, and then show us how easily the tables
are flipped. Awakening Youth Discipleship is a necessary read if
youth workers are going to expose the sanctified greed, passionate
advertising, and soulful materialism that keeps all of us, young
and old, from entering the freedom of Jesus."" --Mark Yaconelli,
author of Contemplative Youth Ministry ""Brian, David, and Michael
have given us a real gift, a pearl of great price. As a father, a
teacher and a consultant, I only wish I had this book years
earlier. If, as Rahner said, the church of this century would be a
church of mystics, these three guides prove that they are the right
people to help us navigate the 'culture tricks' so that we're
mindful of pouring new wine into new wineskins. This book is a
significant contribution for all interested in formation, Christian
discipleship and everyday life. This book is also a great read It
made me smile often."" --Michael J. Downey, Australian Youth
Minister, author of Digging Deep: Fostering the Spirituality of
Young Men ""For those of us in youth ministry, this book offers a
mirror of sorts. And, as with any good mirror, it offers us an
opportunity for reflection. To be honest, if you read it carefully
and with an open mind, you will probably be forced to see some
facets of the current youth ministry identity that aren't very
flattering. They write honestly, thoughtfully and without
condescension, but in these straightforward essays I heard the
sounds of some sacred cows being butchered, the tough questions of
a thorough Cross-examination (yeah, that Cross), and what I believe
were the sounds of my chair as I squirmed a bit. The writer of
Proverbs reminds
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