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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Oh My God: An Introduction | |
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| Haunting Questions | |
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| You Are Not Alone | |
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| Telling the Truth: We Do This for Joy | |
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| The Trouble with Research | |
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| Does Youth Ministry Matter? | |
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| Do Our Practices of Youth Ministry Reflect Christ? | |
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| Do Our Practices of Youth Ministry Shape Christians? | |
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| How Long Can We Keep This Up? | |
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| Can We Do Better? | |
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| Further Reading on Themes in This Chapter | |
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| Daunting Challenges | |
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| Spying on Canaan | |
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| The Challenges of a Changing Lifestage | |
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| Expanding Adolescence? | |
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| Ending of Adolescence? | |
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| The Challenges of a Changing Context | |
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| A New Sense of Place: The Challenge of Getting Grounded | |
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| A New Sense of Time: The Challenge of Changing Tempo | |
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| A New Sense of Stuff: The Challenge of Living Generously | |
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| A New Sense of Self: The Challenge of Branding | |
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| A New Sense of Story: The Challenge of Telling the Truth | |
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| Challenges Ahead: Serving Christ in a Post-Christendom Church | |
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| Learning to Be Church (Again) | |
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| Further Reading on Themes in This Chapter | |
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| Enduring Themes | |
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| Some Things Last: Christ's Call to Discipleship | |
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| Thumb-lines in Youth Ministry | |
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| Belonging: Including Young People in the Community of Faith | |
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| Accompaniment: Joining Young People on the Journey of Faith | |
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| Participating in Means of Grace: Strengthening Young People for the Life of Faith | |
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| The Sign Potential of Community | |
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| The Sign Potential of Imagination | |
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| The Sign Potential of Adolescence | |
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| “Being in Time” | |
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| Further Reading on Themes in This Chapter | |
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| Promising Possibilities | |
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| The Madness of Ministry with Young People | |
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| The Theological “Turn” in Youth Ministry | |
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| Dick and Jane Go to Church: The Hunger for a Worthy Adventure | |
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| The Missional Church: Following Jesus into the World | |
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| Vocation and Mission | |
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| Through the Roof and through the Window | |
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| Redefining Community: From Connections to Communion | |
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| New Ways to Belong | |
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| Communion, Not Connections | |
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| Sacred Practices: Aiming for Embodied Faith | |
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| Practicing the Presence of God | |
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| A Curriculum of Sacred Practices | |
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| The Importance of Parents | |
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| Beyond Training Events: New Possibilities for Forming Leaders | |
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| Incarnational Leadership Formation Is Communal | |
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| Incarnational Leadership Formation Is Repeated and Ongoing | |
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| Incarnational Leadership Formation Is Situated | |
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| Incarnational Leadership Formation Is Spirit-led | |
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| Streams in the Wasteland | |
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| Further Reading on Themes in This Chapter | |
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| Emerging Competencies | |
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| Setting the Believers an Example (or Not) | |
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| Leading with Integrity: Still Learning | |
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| Searching the Scriptures: Expecting Transformation in Bible Study | |
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| Inviting Wholeness: Identity and Integrity in Teaching | |
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| Stilling the Soul: The Practice of Presence | |
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| Soul Doctors: Nurturing Hope amidst Suffering | |
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| Spectators No More: Creating Church versus Consuming It | |
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| Choosing Life: Discerning Vocation with Young People | |
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| Benedict of Nursia, Youth Guy | |
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| Further Reading on Themes in This Chapter | |
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| A Maturing Discipline | |
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| Youth Ministry Comes of Age (Maybe) | |
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| Field or Discipline? | |
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| Specialists or Generalists? | |
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| The Risks of Intellectual Maturity | |
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| Pastoral Imagination: Job #1 for Preparing Youth Ministers | |
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| Practical Theology: The Parent Discipline of Youth Ministry | |
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| Discipling a Discipline | |
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| Report Card for an Emerging Discipline | |
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| A Common Mission: Theological Education and Reform | |
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| A Common Language: A Conundrum | |
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| A Cadre of Professionals: A Significant Presence | |
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| Academic Programs: Proliferating | |
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| Academic Research: A Hopeful Sign | |
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| Distinctive Pedagogies: Still Evolving | |
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| Growing Pains in a Growing Field | |
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| Further Reading on Themes in This Chapter | |
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| The Study of Exemplary Congregations in Youth Ministry: Assets for Developing Spiritually Mature Youth | |
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| The Study of Exemplary Congregations in Youth Ministry: Characteristics of Spiritually Mature Youth | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index of Authors Cited | |
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| Index of Selected Topics | |