Youth Ministry 101 Why

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Youth Ministry 101Why What We Do

• Diocese of Fond du Lac
• Saturday, January 14 28, 2012
• St. Annes, DePere
• Intercession, Stevens Point

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Laying the Foundation
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The Great Commandment

• Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind.
• Love your neighbor as yourself.

The Great Commission

• Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
  baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
  the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them
  to obey everything that I have commanded you.

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The Baptismal Covenant
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Do you believe in God the Father? Jesus
Christ, the Son of God? God the Holy
Spirit? Will you give your heart away???
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Will you continue in the apostles teaching
and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in
the prayers ? Will you show up?
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Will you persevere in resisting evil, and,
whenever you fall into sin, repent and return to
the Lord? Will you pay attention???
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Will you proclaim by word and example the Good
News of God in Christ? Will you tell the
story???
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Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons,
loving your neighbor as yourself? Will you
strive for justice and peace among all people,
and respect the dignity of every human
being? Will you do the work???
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Those who give their heart away will

• Will do the work.

and they do this work because they

• Know the story

and they know the story because they have

• Paid attention

and they could only have paid attention because
they have

• Shown up

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Give your heart away Show Up Pay
Attention Tell the Story Do the Work
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A Spiritual Self-Assessment from the Search
Institute
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Vertical Faith Our relationship with God
Horizontal Faith Our relationship with each other
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Vertical Faith
Integrated Faith
Horizontal Faith
Underdeveloped Faith
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Marks of Faith Eight core dimensions of faith
maturity Trusting Believing Seeking Spiritual
Growth Integrating Faith and Life Holding
Life-Affirming Values Experiencing the Fruits of
Faith Nurturing Faith in Community Advocating
Social Change Acting and Serving
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How Faith Develops
Bp.Gene Robinsons interpretation of John
Westerhoffs theory of faith development as
presented in his book, Will Our Children Have
Faith
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Experienced Faith
is faith that is first experienced passively
through interactions with other persons who have
faith.
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Affiliative Faith
is belonging faith. An accepting community is
necessary for the development of affiliative
faith.
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more significantly involves the cognitive
capacity of the person. Doubt and critical
judgment are characteristic of searching faith.
Persons with this style of faith need to test the
communitys faith-story and practices in order to
reach convictions of their own.
Searching Faith
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The expansion of faith from experienced faith to
an owned faith is commonly called conversion.
Owned faith is the culmination of the conversion
process. The person owns and is owned by his or
her faith.
Owned Faith
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• What motivates a person to grow and change?
• When confronted with situations or problems
  which are not satisfactorily resolved by the
  present style and old answers?
• When confronted by role models or persons who are
  acting more satisfactorily in an expanded style
  of faith.

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Basic Principles of Relational Ministry
Youth Ministry Leadership Academy
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PRINCIPLE I In Relational Ministry there is
infinite respect for the individual.
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BIBLICAL REFERENCE Jeremiah 148 Now the
word of the Lord came to me saying,  Before I
formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you
were born I consecrated you I appointed you a
prophet to the nations.  Then I said, Ah,
Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I
am only a boy. But the Lord said to me, Do not
say, I am only a boy for you shall go to all
to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever
I command you.  Do not be afraid of them, for I
am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.
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PRINCIPLE I In Relational Ministry there is
infinite respect for the individual. THEOLOGICAL
FOUNDATION The doctrine of creation affirms
the goodness, value, and worth of humanity and
in the Incarnation God has chosen to be joined to
humanity in the fullest and most profound way.
This expression of Gods love for us calls us
beyond ourselves to acknowledge and respect the
worth and dignity of others, as the foundation of
all relationships.
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PRINCIPLE II In Relational Ministry, honesty
with self and others is essential.
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BIBLICAL REFERENCE Colossians 31217   As
Gods chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe
yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility,
meekness, and patience. Bear with one another
and, if anyone has a complaint against another,
forgive each other just as the Lord has forgiven
you, so you also must forgive. Above all, clothe
yourselves with love, which binds everything
together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of
Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you
were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let
the word of Christ dwell in you richly teach and
admonish one another in all wisdom and with
gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and
spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in
word or deed, do everything in the name of the
Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father
through him.
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PRINCIPLE II In Relational Ministry, honesty
with self and others is essential. THEOLOGICAL
FOUNDATION The life and ministry of Jesus
presents a radical example of being in honest
relationships with self and others. This carries
an insistence upon openly seeking truth, by
engaging with others in the full range of lifes
joys and sorrows, issues, questions, and
conflicts.
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PRINCIPLE III In Relational Ministry, there is
a common responsibility for what happens.
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BIBLICAL REFERENCE 1 Corinthians 121226
For just as the body is one and has many
members, and all the members of the body, though
many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in
the one Spirit we were all baptized into one
bodyJews or Greeks, slaves or freeand we were
all made to drink of one Spirit.  Indeed, the
body does not consist of one member but of
many. If the foot were to say, Because I am not
a hand, I do not belong to the body, that would
not make it any less a part of the body. And if
the ear were to say, Because I am not an eye, I
do not belong to the body, that would not make
it any less a part of the body. If the whole body
were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the
whole body were hearing, where would the sense of
smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members
in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If
all were a single member, where would the body
be? As it is, there are many members, yet one
body. The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no
need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I
have no need of you. 
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On the contrary, the members of the body that
seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those
members of the body that we think less honorable
we clothe with greater honor, and our less
respectable members are treated with greater
respect  whereas our more respectable members do
not need this. But God has so arranged the body,
giving the greater honor to the inferior
member, that there may be no dissension within
the body, but the members may have the same care
for one another. If one member suffers, all
suffer together with it if one member is
honored, all rejoice together with it.
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PRINCIPLE III In Relational Ministry, there is
a common responsibility for what
happens. THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION Our Lord
called the disciples into an intimate
relationship of friendship and ministry. Pauls
image of the Body of Christ presents an
understanding of community which affirms and
seeks to nurture the gifts of each person for the
benefit and well-being of the whole. This
understanding calls us beyond arbitrary divisions
between people and toward shared leadership,
decision making and ministry.
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PRINCIPLE IV In Relational Ministry,
explorations of life experiences and the Gospel
are shared and affirmed.
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BIBLICAL REFERENCE 1 John 4111 Beloved, do
not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to
see whether they are from God for many false
prophets have gone out into the world. By this
you know the Spirit of God every spirit that
confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
is from God, and every spirit that does not
confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the
spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard
that it is coming and now it is already in the
world. Little children, you are from God, and
have conquered them for the one who is in you is
greater than the one who is in the world. They
are from the world therefore what they say is
from the world, and the world listens to them. We
are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us,
and whoever is not from God does not listen to
us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the
spirit of error.
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Beloved, let us love one another, because love is
from God everyone who loves is born of God and
knows God. Whoever does not love does not know
God, for God is love. Gods love was revealed
among us in this way God sent his only Son into
the world so that we might live through him. In
this is love, not that we loved God but that he
loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning
sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved
us so much, we also ought to love one another.
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PRINCIPLE IV In Relational Ministry,
explorations of life experiences and the Gospel
are shared and affirmed. THEOLOGICAL
FOUNDATION Human life and history is the place
where God has chosen to be with us. Individual
life experience was the starting point for Jesus
from which he and others explored who God is and
who they were in relation to God. This calls each
of us to explore and share connections between
our own lives and the Gospel.
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The Wedge
Original work by the Reverend Don Kimball Adapted
by Lisa Kimball J.H. Westerhoff, III Will Our
Children Have Faith (1976)
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Ah ha!
Core Leadership
Welcome
Community
Catechesis
Action
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Faith development stages
Experienced
Affiliative
Searching
Owned
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Theology of
Evangelism
Invitation
Identity
Engagement
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Focus of ministry
Listen connection
Show Up contact
Be Moved conversion
Tell the Truth commitment
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How mission is carried out
Charity
Service
Advocacy
Justice
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Focus of what happens
FELLOWSHIP
FUN
PRAYER
PRACTICE
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Who is the primary focus
Me
We
I
Us
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Program development
Welcome
Community
Catechesis
Action
Evangelism
Invitation
Identity
Engagement
Me
We
I
Us
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FELLOWSHIP
PRAYER
PRACTICE
Justice
Charity
Service
Advocacy
Experienced
Affiliative
Searching
Owned
Listen connection
Show Up contact
Be Moved conversion
Tell the Truth commitment
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• Keys to good a good formation program
• Provide a variety of experiences
• Know the community and where those in formation
  are in their spiritual development
• Leaders need to have an owned and fully developed
  faith

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Program Basics
Study/Formation

• Prayer/Worship

Service/Mission
Fellowship/Fun
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Family
Youth
Church Community
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Family
Youth
Church Community
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Gospel Based Discipleship

• 1. Read the scripture passage
• Silence
• Share one word or phrase which stands out for
  you
• 2. Read the scripture passage a 2nd time
• Silence
• What is Jesus saying to you today?
• 3. Read the scripture passage a 3rd time
• Silence
• What is Jesus calling you to do today?

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Mark 121-28 Jesus and his disciples went to
Capernaum and when the sabbath came, he entered
the synagogue and taught. They were astounded at
his teaching, for he taught them as one having
authority, and not as the scribes. Just then
there was in their synagogue a man with an
unclean spirit, and he cried out, "What have you
to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come
to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One
of God." But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be
silent, and come out of him!" And the unclean
spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud
voice, came out of him. They were all amazed, and
they kept on asking one another, "What is this? A
new teaching-- with authority! He commands even
the unclean spirits, and they obey him." At once
his fame began to spread throughout the
surrounding region of Galilee.