Youth Specialties' Growing Souls
Tony Jones is the National Coordinator of Emergent Village (www.emergentvillage.org), a network of innovative, missional Christians. He's also a doctoral fellow and senior research fellow in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Tony has written several books on philosophy, theology, ministry, and prayer, including Postmodern Youth Ministry and The Sacred Way. He's a sought-after speaker on the topics of theology and the emerging church.
"Soul Shaper resources use historic, contemplative practices and flesh them out in the context of modern youth ministry. Students learn to see God in their everyday lives and connect to God's unfolding story through silence, scriptural meditation, contemplative prayer, spiritual listening, and a host of other counter-cultural practices. You may think, "Isn't that just new-age stuff?" No! Just because new-agers coopted spiritual practices that began as devotions to Jesus doesn't mean we should shy away from them. They're part of our tradition, part of our story. These revolutionary, old ways of listening to God will help students move God from being academic and distant to being relational and intimate."
Read about Youth Specialties' MTV Awards Bible Study
THE EMERGING CHURCH AND YOUTH SPECIALTIES
Experiments in Contemplative Youth Ministry
Author Mark Yaconelli is the co-founder and director of the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project. His research and ministry with young people has been groundbreaking in its exploration of spiritual direction, contemplation, and ancient spiritual practices as the basis of discipleship with young people.
From Growing Souls...
Despite the many youth leaders and youth who expressed a sense of transformation through contemplative prayer and presence, it’s important to name the ways in which churches struggled and often faltered in their attempt to practice contemplative youth ministry.
Icons, prayer beads, and labyrinths are now commonly found in youth rooms across the country. Unfortunately, there is often little understanding of how these sacred objects and practices relate to a congregation’s doctrines, theology, and tradition.
The true way of relationship, the true way of faith is to again and again return our eyes and ears to the presence of the Beloved, to return our eyes and ears to the presence of the other person.
The spiritual disciplines the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project has emphasized—disciplines like prayer, silence, solitude, spiritual direction, and contemplative listening—are desperately needed within a culture that seems to be losing its ability to attend to the depths of life.
An Emergent Church Leader and author appears at the Youth Specialties bookstore...
Icons, prayer beads, and labyrinths are now commonly found in youth rooms across the country. Unfortunately, there is often little understanding of how these sacred objects and practices relate to a congregation’s doctrines, theology, and tradition.
The true way of relationship, the true way of faith is to again and again return our eyes and ears to the presence of the Beloved, to return our eyes and ears to the presence of the other person.
The spiritual disciplines the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project has emphasized—disciplines like prayer, silence, solitude, spiritual direction, and contemplative listening—are desperately needed within a culture that seems to be losing its ability to attend to the depths of life.
An Emergent Church Leader and author appears at the Youth Specialties bookstore...
Tony Jones is the National Coordinator of Emergent Village (www.emergentvillage.org), a network of innovative, missional Christians. He's also a doctoral fellow and senior research fellow in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Tony has written several books on philosophy, theology, ministry, and prayer, including Postmodern Youth Ministry and The Sacred Way. He's a sought-after speaker on the topics of theology and the emerging church.
"Soul Shaper resources use historic, contemplative practices and flesh them out in the context of modern youth ministry. Students learn to see God in their everyday lives and connect to God's unfolding story through silence, scriptural meditation, contemplative prayer, spiritual listening, and a host of other counter-cultural practices. You may think, "Isn't that just new-age stuff?" No! Just because new-agers coopted spiritual practices that began as devotions to Jesus doesn't mean we should shy away from them. They're part of our tradition, part of our story. These revolutionary, old ways of listening to God will help students move God from being academic and distant to being relational and intimate."
Read about Youth Specialties' MTV Awards Bible Study
THE EMERGING CHURCH AND YOUTH SPECIALTIES
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