Para-Church and Local Church Mission
Joel and Stu are joined by one of the wardens of Soul Revival Church, Leonie Stanfield, to discuss her experiences in para-church ministry, in particular university and sports chaplaincy ministries.
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 10
The way we conduct youth ministry today actually contributes to a breakdown in the ways Christian unity is expressed within the local church.
Celebrating Christian Surfers with Dave Lovell
Stu and Tim chat with Dave Lovell from Christian Surfers, the prominent ministry that adopted the missional approach from the 1970s in the Sutherland Shire, and has continued to grow across the world.
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 9
Once this process began, it only grew more divisions within churches. As the 70s turned into the 80s, western culture only became more individualistic and plural.
The revisitation of Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry
Tim, Stu and Joel sit down to review Andrew Root's seminal book Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry and it's implications within the Incarnational model of ministry and beyond.
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 8
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
The benefits of Family Ministry in an Intergenerational church
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…
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 7
In 1966, Time Magazine ran as its cover story, ‘Is God dead?’. In 1971, it ran another cover story ‘The Jesus Revolution’.
The value of specialised ministry in an Intergenerational church
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.
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 6
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.
Resolving conflict between the 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…
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 5
Youth ministry takes the form of a grassroots movement that can spring up quickly in response to a change in the culture…
Discipleship and mission can happen together
Stu, Tim and Joel are back again breaking down the Four Views of Youth Ministry, tackling the Missional approach…
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 4
Even though a movement grows through institutionalisation, it actually becomes less effective because it becomes less flexible…
Young people are the church of today
Joel, Stu and Tim dig into the first of Mark Senter's Four Views of Youth Ministry: The Prepatory Approach…
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 3
Youth ministry would become the major strategy relied upon for passing on biblical values from one generation to the next…
Youth ministry strategies during the Youth Quake
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.
Theology of Intergenerational Ministry
Tim Beilharz and he helps us paint a theological picture of Intergenerational ministry…
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 2
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…
Does the Church have an image problem?
Season 3 kicks off by asking the question: Does the Church Have an Image Problem?