• See large image

  Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation (Paperback) By (author) Andrew Root

  

  $12.72 - Save $4.28 25% off - RRP $17.00 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
  all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours Add to basket | Add to wishlist |

  Short Description for Revisiting Relational Youth MinistryRoot reviews the history of relational/incarnational youth ministry in American evangelicalism and recasts the practice as one of "place-sharing," not so much "earning the right to be heard" as honoring the human dignity of youth and locating God in their midst. (Ministry & Pastoral Resources)
  Full description

  • Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press,US
  • Published: 14 May 2008
  • Format: Paperback 228 pages
  • See: Full bibliographic data
  • Categories: Christian Life & Practice | Christian Ministry & Pastoral Activity
  • ISBN 13: 9780830834884 ISBN 10: 0830834885
  • Sales rank: 72,595

• The Theological Turn in Youth Mi...

  

  Add to basket $10.80 - Save $7.20 40% off - RRP $18.00

• OMG

  

  Add to basket $17.81 - Save $8.19 31% off - RRP $26.00

• Relationships Unfiltered

  

  Add to basket $11.24 - Save $3.75 25% off - RRP $14.99

• The Children of Divorce

  

  Add to basket $13.45 - Save $6.54 32% off - RRP $19.99

• Taking the Cross to Youth Minist...

  

  87 days to go Pre order $9.74 - Save $3.25 25% off - RRP $12.99

Full description for Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry

• Relational youth ministry, also known as incarnational ministry, can feel like a vicious cycle of guilt: "I should be spending time with kids, but I just don't want to." The burden becomes heavy to bear because it is never over; adolescents always seem to need more relational bonds, and once one group graduates there is a new group of adolescents who need relational contact. It may be that the reason these relationships have become burdensome is that they have become something youth workers do, rather than something that youth workers enter into. InRevisiting Relational Youth Ministry, Andrew Root explores the origins of a dominant ministry model for evangelicals, showing how American culture has influenced our understanding of the incarnation. Drawing from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose work with German youth in troubled times shaped his own understanding of how Jesus intersects our relationships, Root recasts relational ministry as an opportunity not to influence the influencers but to stand with and for those in need. True relational youth ministry shaped by the incarnation is a commitment to enter into the suffering of all, to offer all those in high school or junior high the solidarity of the church.