Leadership/Ministry Training (Page 17)

Leadership/Ministry Training (Page 17)

Is youth ministry biblical? PART 2

A couple of weeks ago I introduced you to an American short film called Divided. If you missed it, here’s the first post: ‘Is youth ministry biblical?‘ As promised, I’m going to take the opportunity over the next few weeks to reflect on some of the issues raised by the movie. According to the movie, ‘youth ministry’ has no basis in Scripture,…

Young Ministers v Old Ministers

If you’re a young minister, frustrated by the older generation of pastor’s and their attitude toward you and your ministry, read this and repent. If you are an older minister who despairs of the younger generation, their new fangled ways of doing things and their almost arrogant disregard for church tradition, read this and repent. Every single person needs to…

Is youth ministry biblical? PART 1

My name’s Mike Stark, I’m the lead youth worker at Niddrie Community Church. Mez brought this interesting little video to my attention. Here’s the trailer (3 minutes long), which gives you a flavour of the argument. The movie is called ‘Divided’ and was produced in conjunction with The National Centre for Family-Integrated Churches. The…

Driscoll on planting issues

Richard Coekin interviewing Mark Driscoll here on everything from how he handles authority, Robe Bell, his language, the Royal Wedding (really!) & his devotional life. I like Richard Coekin a lot. He is a very open, biblical and direct gospel man and he is involved in something in London called Co-Mission. Check out their site here on church planting in the south of…

Why Christians need to read

Further to some earlier videos I posted on this issue, I have been interested to note wide ranging discussion on this topic across a range of blogs. John Brand offers some good insights here on his site and offer further links to the topic. One of the questions is what should Christians be reading, given that there is so much rubbish out there in the market place. See…