Deep Ministry in a Shallow World : Not-So-Secret Findings about Youth Ministry

by Chap Clark and Kara E. Powell from the Center for Youth and Family Ministry

• ISBN13: 9780310267072
• ISBN10: 0310267072
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

Deep Ministry in a Shallow World will show you a new way to prayerfully reflect on the questions you face in your youth ministry every day so you can find the answers that will take it to deeper places. That's because authors Chap Clark and Kara Powell have gathered significant research findings that will help shift your ministry paradigm. Did you know that: - the typical strategies we use to build relationships with kids might actually cause them to trust us less because of what this generation has endured? - recent research on communication could help us move past the witty talks and funny stories we work so hard to develop and instead actually connect the Bible to kids' lives? - studies show that offering students "just Jesus" and not helping them at home, school, and in their neighborhoods might not help them very much at all? The authors' research also led to their development of the Deep Design problem-solving process-a revolutionary model that will give you better tools than ever before to address every last issue you'll encounter in youth ministry.

Table of Contents

SECTION 1: A DEEPER PROCESS	7	(80)
CHAPTER 1 What Keeps Us Floundering in the Shallow End?	9	(14)
Chap Clark and Kara Powell
CHAPTER 2 Deep Method: What's Our Plan for Going Deeper?	23	(28)
Chap Clark and Kara Powell
CHAPTER 3 Deep Change: Where Might I Go Wrong, and Where Can I Go Right?	51	(18)
Kara Powell
CHAPTER 4 Deep Discipleship: Why Isn't "Discipleship" Working Like It Used To?	69	(18)
Chap Clark
SECTION 2: DEEPER WITH PEOPLE	87	(60)
CHAPTER 5 Deep Assets: What Besides "Youth Ministry" Does a Kid Need to Really Grow?	89	(20)
Kara Powell
CHAPTER 6 Deep Mentors: Why Aren't Our Mentors Getting as Deep as We'd Like?	109	(20)
Kara Powell
CHAPTER 7 Deep Parents: "Off My Back" or "On the Team"?	129	(18)
Chap Clark
SECTION 3: DEEPER PRACTICES	147
CHAPTER 8 Deep Communication: Why Doesn't Our Teaching Change Kids' Lives?	149	(22)
Chap Clark
CHAPTER 9 Deep Missions: Why Are So Few Kids Interested in Service and Missions?	171	(24)
Kara Powell
CHAPTER 10 Deep Worship: Who Are Students Becoming When We Lead Them in Worship?	195	(20)
Kara Powell and Brad Griffin
CHAPTER 11 Deep Expectations: Why Am I Exhausted So Much of the Time, and What Can I Do about It?	215	(20)
Kara Powell
CHAPTER 12 Deep Focus Groups: In the Midst of the Busyness and Crazy Expectations, How Can We Maintain Deep Ministry?	235
Kara Powell