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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steve Wright; Chirs Graves |
| ISBN: | 9781931548694 1931548692 |
| OCLC Number: | 183414641 |
| Description: | 238 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Decide for yourself Is student ministry working? |
| Responsibility: | Steve Wright, with Chris Graves. |
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I would recommend this book for anyone involved in ministry, be it pastoral or student.
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I would recommend this book for anyone involved in ministry, be it pastoral or student.
The book entitled Rethink: Decide for Yourself is Student Ministry Working by Steve Wright and Chris Graces is a book written questioning youth ministries current model. It asks the question whether or not the model of youth ministry seen in most churches today is one working, and two if it is biblical. Wright’s suggestion is that we rethink today’s current youth ministry model. He mentions two extremes that people tend to take. One is to completely remove student ministry and to move to total-family based ministry. The other extreme is to put all the responsibility on the church to raise a child up spiritually. He proposes that parents and youth ministry should be co-championing students. The two should work together in their efforts. Far too often youth ministries neglect parents and forget to involve them.
Overall I enjoyed the book. It was an easy read yet covered deep material. While there are already plenty of books about how to do youth ministry, I believe few have the focus and biblical support of Steve Wright’s. He begins by showing the poor results that are occurring in most churches today. Yet he commends and encourages student pastors and does not write them off as lazy but instead calls them ‘hard workers.' He does not want to wright these pastors off but instead he wishes to encourage them and equip them, possible with his proposed method and new way to think about student ministry.
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by crossdude07 updated 2010-04-30


