The End of Youth Ministry?
Why Parents Don't Really Care about Youth Groups and What Youth Workers Should Do about It| By: | Andrew Root |
| Publisher: | Baker Publishing Group |
| Print ISBN: | 9781540961396 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781493420179 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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What is youth ministry actually for? And does it have a future?
Andrew Root, a leading scholar in youth ministry and practical theology, went on a one-year journey to answer these questions. In this book, Root weaves together an innovative first-person fictional narrative to diagnose the challenges facing the church today and to offer a new vision for youth ministry in the 21st century.
Informed by interviews that Root conducted with parents, this book explores how parents' perspectives of what constitutes a good life are affecting youth ministry. In today's culture, youth ministry can't compete with sports, test prep, and the myriad other activities in which young people participate.
Through a unique parable-style story, Root offers a new way to think about the purpose of youth ministry: not happiness, but joy.