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Preface and Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
"Life Is Liturgy" | |
Disconnected | p. 1 |
Key Concepts of the Book | p. 4 |
Amplifying Our Witness | p. 5 |
Practice-Centered Ministry | p. 6 |
Adolescence | p. 10 |
My Biased Perspective (as Opposed to Your Biased Perspective) | p. 14 |
Practical Theology | p. 15 |
Missional Theology | p. 17 |
Structure of the Book | p. 18 |
Awakened to the Issues | p. 20 |
Visio Dei | |
Awakened to the Issues | p. 20 |
Emmanuel's Gift | p. 21 |
Dissed | p. 21 |
Labels | p. 24 |
"Aching Emptiness" | p. 27 |
Spiritual Nomads | p. 31 |
The Need for a New Approach to Ministry | p. 33 |
Affirming Presence | p. 34 |
Imago Dei | |
"I Did It!" | |
"Off-Duty Image of God" | p. 35 |
Friendship | p. 38 |
"Deodorant and Discipleship" | p. 38 |
Friendship in Historical Perspective | p. 40 |
Unlikely Alliances | p. 41 |
Relationships as Sacramental, Not Instrumental | p. 42 |
Fireworks | p. 44 |
Place-Sharing | p. 44 |
Elected to Friendship | p. 46 |
"My Place" | p. 48 |
Connected | p. 49 |
Peers | p. 51 |
Rejection: Coping with a Lack of Markers | p. 56 |
The Inconvenience of Friendship | p. 57 |
Amplifying Our Witness | p. 61 |
Missio Dei | |
From Jesters to Gesturers | p. 61 |
Missio Dei | p. 62 |
Witness | p. 64 |
Professor Nathan | p. 64 |
Iconic Witness | p. 66 |
Evocative Witness | p. 68 |
The Witness of All Creation | p. 69 |
Friendship as a Missional Christian Practice | p. 70 |
Advocating an Approach | p. 74 |
Opus Dei | |
Opus Dei | p. 74 |
Step One: You Have to Be a Professional | p. 75 |
Step Two: Develop Peer Buddies | p. 76 |
Step Three: Make Hospitality the Context of All of Your Programs | p. 78 |
Step Four: Partake in Gestured Practices | p. 80 |
Step Five: Develop a Proclamatory Program | p. 83 |
Feeling Faith | p. 84 |
Smelling Sanctification | p. 86 |
Heavenly Host(ing) | p. 87 |
Baptism and the Lord's Supper | p. 88 |
Step Six: Challenge Church Structures | p. 90 |
Epilogue: Taste and See That the Lord Is Good | p. 93 |
Toward a Theology of Evangelism Informed by a Life Shared with Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities | |
"Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Life" | p. 93 |
A Parable | p. 96 |
Bibliography | p. 97 |
Index | p. 103 |
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