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Reaching a New Generation.

Reaching a New Generation. Mission and Evangelism with Young People. We have a problem. Number of 15-19 year olds in UK church. 500k. 400k. 68%. 300k. 200k. 100k. Number of 75 - 84 year olds in UK church. 1979. 2005. Articles of enquiry 2011.

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Reaching a New Generation.

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  1. Reaching a New Generation. Mission and Evangelism with Young People

  2. We have a problem

  3. Number of 15-19 year olds in UK church 500k 400k 68% 300k 200k 100k Number of 75 - 84 year olds in UK church 1979 2005

  4. Articles of enquiry 2011 • Does your church have faith based work with 11-14 year olds? Yes No N/a 36% 60% 4% • Does your church have faith based work with 15-19 year olds Yes No N/a 24% 71% 6%

  5. What’s gone wrong?

  6. Christendom thinking • Talking over listening • Teaching over learning • Dualistic • The Church Service as core mediation of faith • Judgemental • Hierarchical • Material • Theoretical not active • Lack of Adult discipleship • Conformist • Wedded to modernity • Informational not spiritual • Default to attractional model /Programme • Belief system not Call • Institution not movement

  7. Myth Busting

  8. How Christianity is mediated“What is a Christian?”

  9. See Hear Do

  10. But we like modernity!?

  11. Recent research and writing MTD

  12. Contemplative Youth Ministry

  13. Contemplative Youth Ministry

  14. Contemplative Youth Ministry

  15. "The young, with their strong loathing for the unauthentic, quickly detect any dichotomy between the church and its founder“ John Stott

  16. What might missional response(s) look like?

  17. What do we need to explore?

  18. Spirituality Faith needs to be Authentic. It’s 24/7 or 0 It’s about experiencing and knowing God That fuels a wanting to know about It’s about How it works for you and for me, not abstract ideas of truth It’s about all of us learning, not just being taught at! Listening, sharing, doing, reflecting Spirituality isn’t just words, it’s all senses and action.

  19. What’s right with what we are doing at the moment? • Community • All age • The possibility of spirituality • A concern for young people • Relationally based

  20. A question of Discipleship

  21. Looking at the Work of Richard Passmore In the beginning was ‘flow’

  22. “Escape the Circus and live beyond the limits of the imaginary lid”Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life and have it to the FULL!”

  23. Newbigin and Donavan

  24. Soul Searching Moral Therapeutic Deism A God exists who created and orders the world, and watches over life on earth. God wants us to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as most world religions teach. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself. God doesn’t need to be involved in my life unless I need God to solve a problem. Good people go to heaven when they die.

  25. An aspirational mix The right measure of: • Fear • Fantasy • Mastery • Humour • Love • Stability Martin Lindstrom

  26. A Mission strategy for the local church

  27. A Theological Underpinning • There is a creator God who is on the move to find those who are lost (Luke 15) 2. God's heart is decisively compassionate towards children and young people (Mark 10:13ff) 3. God loves people enough to invade human history via the incarnation (Phil. 2:5-11) 4. Followers of Jesus Christ are likewise called to love and pursue those whom God loves, and therefore called to "go" into the world of the young (John 17:8) 5. The message of the Gospel, focused on the Incarnate Word brings hope and healing to every person regardless of race, culture, ethnicity or age (Romans 10:12-13) Chap Clark

  28. Youth Ministry …….. • is relational • is incarnational • recognizes the priority of Worship? • relies on the transforming power of God • Recognises that mission is holistic • Is a long-term process • Recognizes the importance of discipleship Mission Shaped Youth

  29. What do we teach teens when we are not teaching them?

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