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01.17.08Young Life - change the message as well as the methodsI was reading this artical on Christianity Today. It talks about Young Life (YL) fireing or accepted resignations from 10 staff members in the Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina, basically, as far as I can tell, because the staff members were not upholding the traditions of the way YF explains the Gospel. Later on the artical states: "When composing the Non-Negotiables document, YL leaders were evidently concerned to differentiate between style and substance. "We affirm Young Life's style is relational and incarnational," the statement reads. "This means that our proclamation of the gospel will most always proceed from ...
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01.16.08Why God doesn’t go to churchwhy god doesn't go to church
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01.05.08How can Youth Work/Ministry be in the Third PlacesThe Third Place is a term coined by US sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his 1990 book The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. Oldenburg sees the “first” place as our home and those we live with. Our second place is the workplace (school, college, university) — where we spend most of our days. But third places anchor community life and offer the benefits that come with broader interaction. All societies have informal meeting places. Oldenburg sees the essential ingredients of third places as: they ...
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12.20.07The Blasphemy Challenge and the end of Christendom…thank God!I was reading on Rethinking Youth about the The Blasphemy Challenge, "Basically, this is a group of atheists, led by a thirty-year-old..., that challenges individuals, specifically youth, to deny, on camera, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit..." The young people then post these on YouTube. I went to the The Blasphemy Challenge website and watched a news interview from Fox News that they had posted. The interviewer on Fox (who irritated me a lot more then the atheist), was quite concerned that young people were being corrupted and brainwashed by the Blasphemy Challenge, he seemed to me ...
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