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Get a FREE Copy of Relationships Unfiltered by Andrew Root

Last Updated July 27, 2010 by Matt 4 Comments

[NOTE: THE FREE COPY OF THE BOOK IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. 230 BOOKS GOT MAILED OUT. BUT READ BELOW TO FIND OUT HOW TO GET 40% OFF THE BOOK]

Below is a message from Andrew Root, Associate Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, and author of the books Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, Relationships Unfiltered, The Promise of Despair, and The Children of Divorce.

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Hello Youth Ministry friends, I’m sorry to interrupt your regularly scheduled blog reading, but I have broken transmission to offer you an opportunity.

I wanted to get before you the chance to get a free copy of my book Relationships Unfiltered. As the new school year approaches and you think about volunteer leader meetings and trainings I would like to suggest you take a look at Relationships Unfiltered. It’s written just for this setting with discussion questions and chapters filled with illustrations and stories–but also promises to get you and your team thinking theologically about your core practice this coming school year: forming relationships with young people.

Here’s what I can do: If you’ll email me (aroot@luthersem.edu) I’ll send you a free copy of the book so you can look it over and decide if it would be of help to you and your volunteers. If you’re interested in using it you can then go to Zondervan.com or Zondervan.com/ministry and type in the code 980752 in the “source code” box. Starting August 1 this will give you a 40% discount on as many books as you’d like.

And I’ll also offer this, if you do use the book with your team, I’m willing to do a select number of skype or ichat conversations with you and your team after getting through the book.

– Andrew Root

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I bought a copy for all my small group leaders, so the 40% off offer is possibly a great way to save on a quality resource. If you do not have this book, you should at least take up the offer on the free book. I have posted my thoughts on the book in my post here and say:

In my mind, this is the book that every small group leader and mentor needs to read. I have said before, and this book confirms it, that although youth ministry is not easy, it is not complicated, either. In fact, it is fairly simple. It has to do with loving Jesus and loving teenagers. What Root does in this book is tell us what it looks like to love teenagers: focus on the who instead of the how. Root says that the first questions for youth leaders is not How do we get kids to church? or How can we influence kids to be better Christians, but the first questions should always begin with who: Who is this teenager in my small group? Who are the marginalized in our community? Who is Jesus Christ in the lives of these students? Root says that How? questions do not properly attend to the humanity of the individual and instead focus on method. Root argues persuasively against this by grounding his approach in the theology of the incarnation.

Filed Under: Books, Youth Ministry Tagged With: Andrew Root, free, small groups

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Matt Cleaver has written since 2004 on youth ministry, theology, and the church. His blog was ranked by Youth Specialties as a Top 20 Youth Ministry Blog. Click here for Matt's list of the Best Youth Ministry Books.

Comments

  1. Joel Mayward says

    July 27, 2010 at 5:56 pm

    Free theological youth ministry book, discounted books for my junior high small group leaders, and personal coaching from Andrew Root? Sign me up. 🙂

    Reply
    • Matt says

      July 27, 2010 at 6:08 pm

      Totally. I think I’m gonna order a load just to keep on hand to give to new people.

      Reply
  2. Trevor says

    July 30, 2010 at 8:11 am

    Hey Matt – thanks for the heads up on this!
    I sent an email to Dr. Root re: the book offer, and he replied in less than 5 minutes letting me know it’d be on the way…and I don’t think it was an “auto-reply” either!

    Reply
    • Matt says

      July 31, 2010 at 4:25 pm

      Sweet. It’s good to know someone took him up on his offer through my site. You’ll enjoy the book.

      Reply

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