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The end of youth ministry? : why parents don't really care about youth groups and what youth workers should do about it / Andrew Root.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2020.Description: xiv, 225 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781540961396
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 259/.23 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4447 .R65265 2020
Contents:
Toward a journey to joy -- Don't waste your life: youth ministry and the good life -- Are the kids OK? Goods and youth ministry -- Three sets of parents: things and happiness emerge -- Identity, part one: a dance party, Demi Lovato, and the internal quest -- Transformation in youth ministry -- Identity, part two: romance, recognition, and resentment -- Happiness, part one: Powerball, endgames, and Sheryl Crow versus Taylor Swift -- When goods become the good -- Happiness, part two: holiness, virtue, and Luther's freak-out -- Joy and the custodian: what youth ministry is for -- Borne burdens: youth ministry and stories of joy -- Open takes and closed spins: youth ministry and transcendence -- An identity event: how youth ministry affects identity -- Holding vigil: youth ministry and cruciform practices -- Conclusion: friendship and DQ.
Summary: "Using an innovative first-person fictional narrative, an expert in youth ministry diagnoses the challenges facing the church today and offers a new way to think about what youth ministry can be for: not happiness, but joy"--
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Includes bibliographical references.

Toward a journey to joy -- Don't waste your life: youth ministry and the good life -- Are the kids OK? Goods and youth ministry -- Three sets of parents: things and happiness emerge -- Identity, part one: a dance party, Demi Lovato, and the internal quest -- Transformation in youth ministry -- Identity, part two: romance, recognition, and resentment -- Happiness, part one: Powerball, endgames, and Sheryl Crow versus Taylor Swift -- When goods become the good -- Happiness, part two: holiness, virtue, and Luther's freak-out -- Joy and the custodian: what youth ministry is for -- Borne burdens: youth ministry and stories of joy -- Open takes and closed spins: youth ministry and transcendence -- An identity event: how youth ministry affects identity -- Holding vigil: youth ministry and cruciform practices -- Conclusion: friendship and DQ.

"Using an innovative first-person fictional narrative, an expert in youth ministry diagnoses the challenges facing the church today and offers a new way to think about what youth ministry can be for: not happiness, but joy"--

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