Presence-Centered Youth Ministry | Mike King

Mike King. Presence-Centered Youth Ministry: Guiding Students into Spiritual Formation. IVP, 2006. 192 pp.

How many programs does it take to change a youth group?

That question has bothered youth workers for decades, and the cracks in its logic are beginning to show. In place of the contrived, artificial mechanisms employed so widely in modern youth outreach and discipleship, Mike King proposes a ministry centered in the presence of God.

Young people encounter Christ not in the flash and pop of arena ministry, but in the sacred shadow of his presence. They learn what it is to love and follow Christ by observing others loving and following Christ–letting Christ shape their worldviews, their habits, their virtues. Presence-Centered Youth Ministry gives shape to such ministry through the classic disciplines and potent symbols and practices that have sustained the church over the centuries.

The sound and fury that has characterized youth ministry for so long has left too many youth workers tired and too many young people disillusioned. Come explore the deeper terrain; your students are sure to follow.

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Excerpts: TOC | Intro | pp. 15-18 | Ch. 2 | Browse in Amazon

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Pastors/Church Leaders

• Rustin Smith at RustinSmith (3/07) Review: part 1 | part 2 | part 3
• Joe Neill at StationSix (3/07) Review
• Murray Brown at YouthTrain (5/07) Review

Seminary/Ministerial Students

• Charlie at chuckp3.com (5/07) Review

Laymen/Unknown

• Michael Novelli at Enroute (2/07) Review

Extras:

• Mike King’s blog

• YouthFrontZone

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