There’s an impending leadership crisis unless the Global Church figures out how to better engage youth in a postmodern context. I don’t need to re-paint the picture; there are a myriad of books, articles and blogs representing young people leaving the church en masse or lacking Sticky Faith. I’m looking forward to the gaping potential this […]
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Working with the Global Church to better engage youth in a postmodern context, we wanted to partner with who’s doing leadership best. That would be prevailing spiritual leadership developer John Maxwell. Working together, we developed his EQUIP leadership program for a youth-centered audience to influence tomorrow’s spiritual leaders starting today. We are so excited about the potential of this partnership […]
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Previous: Connection in ministry In order to prevent losing an entire generation, the Church needs to assert itself and strategize how to be effective in reaching its youth. In our Egypt scenario, there was a dire need to develop a national plan to reach and disciple youth, conduct youth leadership training programs, and ensure collaboration […]
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Previous post What we discovered placed us at an operational crossroads. We had to decide whether to simply maintain our ministry using our current programs and products as they were or whether we needed to take steps to overhaul… just about everything. If we committed to an overhaul, that would mean adding a mechanism to […]
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In her book Almost Christian, Kenda Creasy Dean reveals that American youth are ‘almost Christian – but perhaps not fully, at least not in terms of theology or practice.’ They are “almost Christian” in that they generally adhere to Christian principles but don’t live out a thought-through faith that affects their day-to-day living. OneHope’s ABY study —which, […]
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The reality of whether young people are leaving the Church in droves, slow drifting away from deep faith or whether they are revitalizing the next generation of on-fire Christians is highly controversial. David Kinnaman, President of Barna Group, outlined six main reasons young people are leaving the church [1]: Orange founder Reggie Joiner describes churches […]
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