Postmodern Youth Ministry
by Tony Jones

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Book Review: A riviting, mind blowing read
Summary: 5 Stars

That is a hard thing and it means our job, as youth pastors, is that much more difficult. In the post-modern, there can no longer be a cookie cutter approch to ministry. This diversity has to take place far beyond a regional setting, and even beyond a local setting: what works in Evergreen, Colorado might not work in Boulder or Littleton or Cherry Creek. But even more progressively, what works with one student may very easily not work at all with another.

In the post-modern arena, Tony explains, the Bible has to go beyond providing a general moral message to our students. The post-modern is very much about the individual and in minestering to post-modern youth, we need to be able to show each student how the message of Jesus affects them personally.

Our ministries, therefore, need to be based more on relationships and less on programs. In todays society, young adults are more busy then they have ever been before. At any given time they may have several different options with what they can do with there time. I highly doubt that any of us have the budget or talent in our ministries to compete with the entertainment our students could find elsewhere, so what we have to do is integrate our ministies to be a fun and safe place for students to come to, where at the same time they have contact with an adult that truely cares about them. It is our ability to care for and love on our students that differentiates us from other activities in school or the community. Only once a student knows that we care for them, and when they feel comfortable enough to come to us in their darkest times, with those things they would be too scared to even talk to their parents about... once a student trusts us that much in their life, then we have earned the right to minister Christ to them.

Students today are different. We can look at that one of two ways: we can either progressively and joyously accept and adapt to the change, or we can miss a potentially wonderful oppertunity. I think we all owe it to the kids in our ministry to pick the former of the two. Read this book. Some of the ideas Tony develops can seem complex and difficult to understand, I'll admit even for myself, but I think that we, being called to minister to God's children, need to understand kids as best as we can, so that they, in return, can better understand Him.

May the love and light of God shine through each of you, my friends.

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