The Import of the Gospel in Youth Ministry
I ought to be in bed right now, being as I have a presentation to do in the morning, but alas, I am suffering some insomnia. So, I will share with you all something of what I will be talking about tomorrow morning at the Rocky Mountain Bible Mission's Shepherd's Conference here in Missoula. Wayne and I are splitting a session, sharing with people something of our philosophy of youth ministry. Youth Ministry takes a lot of shots from more conservative, reformed, and rural people (not because any of those are necessarily connected or related). Much of this, honestly, is fair criticism. I recently read the book "Giving up Gimmicks: Reclaiming Youth Ministry From an Entertainment Culture" by Brian Cosby. Excellent book, if you can get past a little Presbyterianism. I wasn't quite sure how infant baptism worked into youth ministry, but anyway. The gist of his book was that youth ministries cannot be divorced from the local church. N...