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books:

The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry

12 reviews
Kenda Creasy Dean, Ron Foster

Upper Room Books, 1998

Excellent Read for Youth Ministers!
This book, more than any other I have read to date, describes the changes that must take place as youth ministry enters the 21st century. The authors focus upon the necessity of having spiritual, youth relationships rather than just social, youth recreation. The crying need today is for churches to minister as only they can do to the emptiness young people face in their lives. Rather than ...

Starting Right
Kenda Creasy Dean, Chap Clark, ...

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2001

This is among the very few academic textbooks on youth ministry that blends solid research with real-life experience. It is an excellent resource for undergraduate or graduate courses in youth ministry or for youth workers who want to ground their ministry in solid theology.

Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church

7 reviews
Kenda Creasy Dean

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2006

Read this book. Yesterday.
In a nutshell: 1. Mainline denominations are having trouble reaching youth. 2. Youth are passionate people. 3. The gospel is fundamentally about passion -- Christ's passion. 4. Our churches lack passion. 5. Solution for reaching youth boils down to the church becoming passionate about the gospel. But Dean says all this much better than I do. Listen to this (p. 25): "What if mainline ...