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07.23.08Ethical principles in Youth Work/MinistryThe British National Youth Agency (NYA) has a very interesting document called 'Ethical Conduct in Youth Work' that calls itself 'a statement of values and principles from The National Youth Agency.' The principles of ethical conduct for youth work and what youth workers should be commitment to are: 1. Treat young people with respect, valuing each individual and avoiding negative discrimination. 2. Respect and promote young people’s rights to make their own decisions and choices, unless the welfare or legitimate interests of themselves or others are seriously threatened. 3. Promote and ensure the welfare and safety of young people, while permitting ...
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01.16.08Why God doesn’t go to churchwhy god doesn't go to church
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12.20.07Urban Church Reflection by Steve Collins on emergingchurch.infoI like this photo essay by Steve Collins called urban church.
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12.20.07Missional Ministry Matrix: Part 2In a previous post a wile ago, I had been smitten by Mark Driscoll’s (from Mars Hill Church, Seattle, USA & Acts 29 Church Planting Network) new book: Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (Leadership Network Innovation). In the book he talks about the Missional Ministry Matrix being: 1. our Christology determines how we do our 2. Ecclesiology this determines our 3. Missiology and this then determines how we do 4. Ministry. Over the last year of being a student with Bristol Center for Youth ...
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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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12.20.07Missional Ministry MatrixOne of the most helpful and practical things that I have ever read regarding ministry was in Mark Driscoll’s (from Mars Hill Church, Seattle, USA & Acts 29 Church Planting Network) new book: Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (Leadership Network Innovation). So I decided to start to look at the four areas of the Missional Ministry Matrix (MMM): 1. Christology 2. Ecclesiology 3. Missiology 4. Ministry Through looking at these four areas, it will help me think though my current youth work/ministry.
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12.20.07Youth Work/Ministry 3.0 and the ChurchMark Driscoll the pastor of Mars Hill Church Seattle, USA, has a really interesting post here on Church 3.0. I have put the post into a grid to see the different ‘grades’ of church side by side: CHURCH 1.0 CHURCH 2.0 CHURCH 3.0 In this version, the church is traditional and institutional… Today’s dominant church form is contemporary and seeker-sensitive… This incarnation of the church emerging and missional… The cultural context is modern. The cultural context is somewhere between modern and postmodern. The cultural context is postmodern and pluralistic. The ...
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12.20.07Church Youth Work/Ministry Vs Kingdom Youth Work/MinistryI really love this quote on jonnybaker Blog from Howard Snyder's book 'liberating the church' "The church [Youth Work/Ministry] gets in trouble whenever it thinks its in the church business rather than the Kingdom business. In the church business people are concerned with church activities, religious behavior and spiritual things. In the Kingdom business people are concerned with Kingdom activities, all human behavior and everything God has made, visible and invisible. Kingdom people see human affairs as saturated with spiritual meaning and Kingdom significance. Kingdom people seek first the Kingdom of God and its justice; church people often put church work ...
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