Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation
Root, Andrew
ISBN 10: 0830834885 ISBN 13: 9780830834884
Published by IVP, 2007
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<p>Relational youth ministry, also known as incarnational ministry, can feel like a vicious cycle of guilt: "I should be spending time with kids, but I just don't want to." The burden becomes heavy to bear because it is never over; adolescents alwaysseem to need more relational bonds, and once one group graduates there is a new group of adolescents who need relational contact.It may be that the reason these relationships have become burdensome is that they have become something youth workers do, rather than something that youth workers enter into. In <em>Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry,</em> Andrew Root explores the origins of a dominant ministry model for evangelicals, showing how American culture has influenced our understanding ofthe incarnation. Drawing from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose work with German youth in troubled times shaped his own understanding of how Jesus intersects our relationships, Root recasts relational ministry as an opportunity not to influence the influencers but to stand with and for those in need. True relational youth ministry shaped by the incarnation is a commitment to enter into the suffering of all, to offer all those in high school or junior high the solidarity of the church.</p>
About the Author: <p><strong>Andrew Root</strong> (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is in the Baalson Olson Chair as associate professor of youth and family ministry at Luther Seminary. He is the author of <em>The Children of Divorce,</em> <em>The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry</em> and <em>Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry.</em></p>
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Title: Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a...
Publisher: IVP
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good