The Gospel Coalition has just run a fantastic series contributing to the ongoing debate surrounding the effectiveness and biblical basis for short-term mission trips. As youth groups everywhere spend their summers on trip after trip, often the crux…
Mike Horton, whose book Christless Christianity was part of the impetus for Rooted, writes about how “narcicism is unchurching the church” in “Generation Me and Youth Ministry Today” over at the White Horse Inn, and gives some suggestions…
Our youth ministry at the Church of the Advent has experienced a similar trend in students having little interest in Sunday night large group events. At the same time, we have observed a positive trend in another direction….
Nate Birkholz, the assistant pastor for Lakeside Baptist in Grand Rapids, MI, posed this insightful question to the Rooted blog regarding declining attendance at large group and its relationship to social media and the digital age. Dave Wright…
Jarett Van Tine continues his article on how to teach our students about biblical creation in a secular world. Start off with Part 1 here. Let’s examine the principle for determining truth conveyed by many public school science…
In Colossians 2:2-4,8 Paul writes – “My goal [in my ministry] is that [Christians] may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they…
Just because many Christian teenagers don’t have a broad biblical base doesn’t mean they’re not capable of handling significant issues and doctrines; they just need to be brought along with wisdom and care.
Several years ago, I noticed a student who had been consistent in Sunday school attendance had abruptly stopped coming to class. With the encouragement of his mother, the student calmly confessed his beef with Sunday school: “I’m tired…
Below is the first article of a four-part series that Dave Wright has written to expand and explain the points made in “A Brief History of Youth Ministry”. Check out the other three posts here, here, and here…
