"Divided"- is modern youth ministry really helping kids?
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Official Divided the Movie (HD Version) from NCFIC on Vimeo.
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"The programs are not working and young adults are leaving the church in droves when they hit college"
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Pastor Confesses Addiction to Youth Ministry Programming “Timothy Eldred…used to spend most of his time in the office brewing ideas for flashy programs that will draw a young crowd, he confesses in his new book, 4-Hour Youth Ministry: Escaping the Trap of Full-Time Youth Ministry.”
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Study: the Religion of Most American Teens is "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism"
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Al Mohler on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study
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Evangelical churches retain youth better
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“Evangelical churches do a better job than mainline churches in keeping their young people in the faith, probably because they invest more money in youth ministry, says a Duke University professor who studies characteristics of American congregations.”
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Confessions of a Recovering Teenager
by Pastor Dan Miller
Editor’s Note: This article was reprinted with permission from Dan Miller’s book Spiritual Reflections.
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The Spectrum of Sanctification in Youth Ministry, Part 4
I ended the last article with a discouraging note about the futility of the steps we often employ to guard against the flesh. Steps like being accountable and placing barriers of activity between ourselves and our temptation actually have “no value 
in stopping the indulgence of the flesh” (Col. 2:23, ESV).
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