I have just began reading Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them by Ed Stetzer, Richie Stanley, and Jason Hayes who point to four makers of young adult ministry, based on there own responses.
Community - life is meant to be experienced together, and they sense a need to be involved in genuine relationships with others. . . they want to walk through life with their friends.
Connection - with people who will walk alongside them and advise them . . . to have someone pour their lives into them and teach them along their journey . . . and they are willing to do that for someone else too.
Depth - Young adults want to be people of significance. . . They care about who they are and what they’re becoming.
Responsibility - is strongly valued because young adults know their choices make a difference.
While I have yet to read the following chapters that take a more in-depth look at each of these markers, my first observation is that all four seem to be inter-related. That is, doing community together insists on depth of experience and taking responsibility for one’s own actions because a connection has been created.
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