"The programs are not working and young adults are leaving the church in droves when they hit college"
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Study: the Religion of Most American Teens is "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism"
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Evangelical churches retain youth better
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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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The Spectrum of Independence in Youth Ministry, Part 3
As we consider the issues in Part 2, we will try to determine where we want to be on that spectrum. We can focus more on our teens or more on outsiders. In Part 3, I want to say that these choices actually are the same thing. What I mean is that focusing on our teens is incomplete until we get them to share our focus on unbelievers.
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The Spectrum of Focus in Youth Ministry, Part 2
My previous article considered the role of parents in youth ministry. Direct Parental Discipleship is the responsibility of each parent. How should we apply that responsibility within a local church youth ministry?
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The Spectrum of Parental Involvement in Youth Ministry, Part 1
Scripture gives parents great responsibility for the discipleship of their children. Ephesians 6 and Deuteronomy 6 make this fact clear. But Christians are divided on how the parental role should impact the task of youth discipleship. Churches exhibit a range of parental involvement in youth groups. Some refuse to have a youth group altogether, believing the responsibility and task of youth discipleship belong exclusively to parents.
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