Over the past four years of youth ministry I have stayed away from most published curriculum. In most cases, I have tended to take books that I think are provocative, theologically sound and worthwhile and use them to structure my lessons. So, when I taught on Colossians I used Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire by […]
Reggie McNeal on the Bible
Reggie McNeal, a Baptist, in his book The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church says this about the Bible in North America: The current dilemma with how we use the Bible is twofold. One is that in the last gasps of the modern church, we have made Bible study in itself a mark […]
Ministry vs. Personal Bible Study
Yesterday on the Youth Min Blog Doug posted a good article about how to approach success in youth ministry. He focused in on the personal aspect of youth ministry success, saying, “I believe one of the most important ways we evaluate the effectiveness of our ministry begins with us and our faithfulness,” and I totally […]