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The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
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The youth with faith are those conforming to the youth group through affiliation.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The disposition of our faith-formation programs is usually meant to counteract the subtraction while, inevitably, accepting this interpretation of subtraction.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
It was boboism that radically changed our conception of faith formation, allowing youthfulness to mutate the transcendent call of Jesus to follow into a therapeutic pursuit of the self without divine action.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
because of our overexposure to youthfulness, our conception of faith formation has too often followed this expressive (even instrumental) individualism.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Yet when cultural deism is added to the moralistic and the therapeutic, faith formation becomes bastardized.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
It is my contention that to reimagine faith formation is to recognize the many layers and cultural realities that have made faith formation so difficult.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Evangelicals never considered that the trail of cool and the goal of
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
In the shadow of Secular 3, faith is flattened into a natural and material realm of church participation and the willful decision to believe certain things. It can only be about affiliation and assimilation.