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Randolph 101 The “Teenage Mystique” 12 March 2008

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Randolph 101. The “Teenage Mystique”. 12 March 2008. The “Teenage Mystique”: Definition. Mystique — an air of mystery and deference surrounding a thing that gives that thing special power Examples:. The Feminine Mystique. The Kennedy Mystique. The Cowboy Mystique. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Randolph 101

The “Teenage Mystique”

12 March 2008

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The “Teenage Mystique”: Definition

Mystique — an air of mystery and deference surrounding a thing that gives that thing special power

Examples:

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The Cowboy Mystique

The Kennedy Mystique

The Feminine Mystique

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The “Teenage Mystique”: Definition

Mystique — an air of mystery and deference surrounding a thing that gives that thing special power

Examples:

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The Teenage Mystique

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Why this subject? Secondary traditions often fail …

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Why this subject? Secondary traditions often fail …

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A Mars Hill Interview with Mark DeVries Mark DeVries is an 18-year

veteran of youth ministry

DeVries has trained youth workers across the U.S., as well as in Russia, Canada, Uganda and South Africa, teaching courses or guest lecturing at Princeton, Vanderbilt, David Lipscomb University, and many other well-known colleges and universities

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DeVries is also founder of Family Based Youth Ministry, an organization dedicated to advancing one of the most successful models for youth ministry in America

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Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (NASB)

“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up”

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Some Major Events in Youth Ministry 1800 1900 2000

Explosion of the Missionary Movement

1st Sunday SchoolsEngland

N. America

Sunday School Union Formed

Christian Nurture – Bushnell

YMCAsEnglandN. America

Origin of the Species – Darwin Public funds to high schools

“Christian Endeavor” formed

Religious Education Assn formed“Great Britain

Evangelistic Campaign”

“Young Life” in Britain

Compulsory education

International Council of Religious Ed

Scopes Trial“Christian Youth” campaigns

Youth radio“Miracle Book Club”

“Campus Crusade”

Collapse of denominational support

Integration into seminary &

academic studies

“Youth Specialties” founded

Group Magazine

Rise of local & entrepreneurial ministries

Youth Ministry Educator’s Forum

“Christian Youth Fellowship”

Teenage Christian Magazine

U. Of Michigan Bible Chair Fallout from discipling movement

Bible Chair Journal

WWIIWWI

“Young Life”“Youth for Christ”

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Hall’s Theory of Human Development

G. Stanley Hall1844-1924

Australopithecus

Ramopithecus

Cro Magnon

Neanderthal

Homo Sapiens Sapiens

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Teen Species

G. Stanley Hall1844-1924

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Four Views of the Youth Ministry

1. The Preparatory Approach

2. The Missional Approach

3. The Strategic Approach

4. The Inclusive Congregational Approach

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Modeling the Four Approaches

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NOW

LATER

DEVELOPMENT

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Church of the present

Church of the future

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Modeling the Four Approaches

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COME GO

F E L L O W S H I P / M I S S I O N Bill Brewer, 2008

Fellowship Mission

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The Preparatory Approach is a specialized ministry to adolescents that prepares them for participation in the full life of existing churches as leaders, disciples and evangelists– Four Views of the Church by Mark Senter III

Four Views: The Preparatory Approach

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Four Views: The Missional Approach

The Missional Approach views youth ministry as a mission. Young people and youth ministers are viewed as missionaries whose calling is to communicate the gospel to their generation– Four Views of the Church by Mark Senter III

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Four Views: The Strategic Approach

The Strategic Approach prepares the youth group to become a new church (in other words, a church plant), with the youth pastor evolving into the pastor of a new church– Four Views of the Church by Mark Senter III

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Four Views: The Inclusive Approach

The Inclusive Approach integrates young people into congregational life by treating them as full partners in every aspect of the faith community– Four Views of the Church by Mark Senter III

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Modeling the Four Approaches

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Missional

Strategic

Inclusive

Preparatory

COME GO

F E L L O W S H I P / M I S S I O N

NOW

LATER

DEVELOPMENT

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Missional

Strategic

Inclusive

Preparatory

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Some observations and conclusions…

Youth ministry professionals themselves have doubts about the wisdom of conventional (segregated) youth ministry

Youth ministries prosper primarily due to parental demands

In terms of actual outcomes, parental confidence in traditional youth ministries can be misplaced

Conventional youth programs can easily contribute to the problems they are intended to fix

A basic issue is the choice between …– A relational, biblical model of faith and human development (the

Hebrew ideal)– A secular efficiency model (the Greek ideal)

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Some observations and conclusions… (cont.)

Powerful economic and political forces have huge incentives in maintaining and expanding the isolation of young people from adult community

Government

Public Schools

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The Media

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Some observations and conclusions… (cont.)

The church should not acquiesce to or cooperate with a secular conception of young people that …– Distorts and reduces their real needs and capabilities– Transforms them from tremendous resources into significant

liabilities– Locks them into a subculture that delays and obstructs their

spiritual and physical maturity within the church and larger society

– Is hostile to the “parodosis” (the handing over of Christian tradition) to the next generation

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Appropriate speech Freedom of speech

Right relationships Right rulesVirtue Values

“Right” to be known Right to privacy

Church as Contrast Community

"Will of God" "Will of the people"

Generational solidarity

Generational alienation

Secular World The Church

Affirmation of religious authority

Denial of religious authority

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Covenant Contract

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Backups

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Reminders

Purpose of “Randolph 101”– Unity– Renewal

Purpose of adult Bible class– Edify (build up) the church– Not a substitute for personal Bible study