Mike Higgs. Youth Ministry from the Inside Out: How Who You Are Shapes What You Do. IVP, 2003. 158 pp.
Flash! Ping! Whiz! Pop! Boom! Bang! Crash!
Such are the sights and sounds of modern youth ministry. We look for the bigger, the louder, the brighter. And we work long and hard to make our ministry the biggest, the loudest, the brightest.
But look out and listen up: God is not caught up in sound and fury. And he doesn’t want to see youth workers disengage—letting the momentum define their purpose.
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Donald Miller. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality. Nelson, 2003. 256 pp.
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.” In Donald Miller’s early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God.
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