The Jesus Movement’s premise was that young baby boomers were less likely to listen to the gospel from their parents’ generation, and more likely to listen to a relevant message coming from their own generation

Having finished discussing the 1990s with the Four Views of Youth Ministry, Stu, Tim and Joel now move onto approaches to ministry that emerged in the 2000s, primarily Family Ministry…

In 1966, Time Magazine ran as its cover story, ‘Is God dead?’. In 1971, it ran another cover story ‘The Jesus Revolution’.

Stu, Tim and Joel get together once more to go through the fourth and final approach detailed in Mark Senter's Four Views of Youth Ministry - the Inclusive Congregational approach.

In the past, those in their teens had looked and sounded much like adults; now there was the most striking contrast ever between two successive generations.

Joel, Stu and Tim to continue looking at different strategies of engaging youth by diving into the next of The Four Views of Youth Ministry - the Strategic approach…

Youth ministry takes the form of a grassroots movement that can spring up quickly in response to a change in the culture…

Stu, Tim and Joel are back again breaking down the Four Views of Youth Ministry, tackling the Missional approach…

Even though a movement grows through institutionalisation, it actually becomes less effective because it becomes less flexible…

Joel, Stu and Tim dig into the first of Mark Senter's Four Views of Youth Ministry: The Prepatory Approach…

Youth ministry would become the major strategy relied upon for passing on biblical values from one generation to the next…

Stu and Joel are rejoined by Tim as they chat about the Youth Quake in the 1960s and how it shaped youth ministry in the subsequent decades.

Tim Beilharz and he helps us paint a theological picture of Intergenerational ministry…

Youth ministry (as we know it today) is only a recent addition to the strategy of the church. It began with the Sunday School movement…

Season 3 kicks off by asking the question: Does the Church Have an Image Problem?

This may mean we need to look for a new revolution in the way we pass on the gospel.

Stu and Joel are joined by Soul Revival Church's Youth Pastor, Ethan Crawshaw, to discuss how the church adapted to the lockdowns imposed by COVID-19 through the creation of digital gatherings.

Stu and Joel dive deep into Berea, Soul Revival Church's training program. They talk about how it's developed from the beginnings to the wide range of offerings that it is today.

Jai McMordie and Paul Tait join Joel to talk through the learnings from Soul Revival Church's next experiment in church planting - an ambitious plan to plant two new gatherings under the hub-and-spoke model.

By 2017, the Bishop of Wollongong suggested Soul Revival Church should think about becoming a multi-site church. That lead to the planting of a fourth gathering, the first off-site, in Woolooware. But did we fail to use the Shock Absorber?