This is post nine in a series of reflections on the book Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies To Help Young People Discover And Love Your Church. For an introduction to the series please read part one and continue reading the reflections in part two, three , four, five, six, seven, and eight. Over three months ago I started a series of … Continue reading “Growing Young – Final Reflections”
This is post eight in a series of reflections on the book Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies To Help Young People Discover And Love Your Church. For an introduction to the series please read part one and continue reading the reflections in part two, three , four, five, six and seven. The final chapter! To conclude Growing Young the authors provide … Continue reading “Growing Young – Growing Young In Your Context”
This is post seven in a series of reflections on the book Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies To Help Young People Discover And Love Your Church. For an introduction to the series please read part one and continue reading the reflections in part two, three , four, five and six. In these first few months of being involved in … Continue reading “Growing Young – Be The Best Neighbours”
This is post six in a series of reflections on the book Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies To Help Young People Discover And Love Your Church. For an introduction to the series please read part one and continue reading the reflections in part two, three , four and five. A church that confines the involvement of young people … Continue reading “Growing Young – Prioritize Young People (and Families) Everywhere”
This is post five in a series of reflections on the book Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies To Help Young People Discover And Love Your Church. For an introduction to the series please read part one and continue reading the reflections in part two and three and four. I’m not sure what comes to mind when … Continue reading “Growing Young – Fuel A Warm Community”
This is post four in a series of reflections on the book Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies To Help Young People Discover And Love Your Church. For an introduction to the series please read part one and continue reading the reflections in part two and three. As the title of the chapter states, another reason for … Continue reading “Growing Young – Take Jesus’ Message Seriously”
This is post three in a series of reflections on the book Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies To Help Young People Discover And Love Your Church. For an introduction to the series please read part one and continue reading part two about Keychain Leadership. “Young people these days…” It’s the classic derogatory quote used to describe the actions or … Continue reading “Growing Young – Empathise With Today’s Young People”
This is post two in a series of reflections on the book Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies To Help Young People Discover And Love Your Church. For an introduction to the series please read part one. When I was 16 I was given my first chance to preach. When I was 17 I was put … Continue reading “Growing Young – Keychain Leadership”
In #YouthMin world September 20, 2016, was a big day. The people over at Fuller Youth Institute released their latest book, Growing Young: Six Essential Strategies To Help Young People Discover And Love Your Church. This is the culmination of many years and many pages of research and data to help the church understand what makes … Continue reading “Growing Young”
I continue to plug away on this thing called a blog. There are times when I wonder whether any of the words I string together to make sentences and paragraphs are worth publishing. But it seems this year has seen continued growth on this blog, and also some wider writing on other ministry sites, so … Continue reading “My Top Posts of 2019”
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