PREPARING YOURSELF AND MINISTRY TEAM TO EVANGELIZE IN A FRACTURED YOUTH CULTURE

Preparing Yourself and Ministry Team to Evangelize in a Fractured Youth Culture
Doug Tegner


Preparing Yourself and Your Ministry Team to Evangelize and Disciple in a Fractured Youth Culture

The REALITY and BAGGAGE youth carry into our ministries

CASE STUDIES

Biblically illiterate, Full of misconceptions, Hostile, Depressed, Sensually-driven Fractured, Bored, Disconnected, Immoral history, Broken, Often sincere, Often deceptive

Implications for EVANGELISM, FOLLOW-THROUGH and DISCIPLESHIP

Two models for understanding where individual youth are

Barriers

Engel scale

A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL commitment to evangelism and discipleship

Youth, on their way to Christ:

Take different journeys

Own different assumptions, definitions, values

Speak a different language (literally and culturally)

Hear through different mediums

Face different barriers

Identify with different subsets of peers through music, culture, and lifestyle patterns

Since we are not ministering to a homogeneous youth culture we need to prayerfully equip ministry partners and aim at the youth culture with mul ...

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