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Family-Based Youth Ministry 20 Years Later EQUIPPING THE GENERATIONS FOR GOSPEL-CENTERED LIVING EDITORIAL Family-Based Youth Ministry 02 TIMOTHY PAUL JONES 20 Years Later Family-Based Youth Ministry, Twenty Years Later VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2 SPRING/SUMMER 2014 FEATURE ARTICLES Southern Seminary Editorial Board Chairman: R. Albert Mohler Jr. 06 TOM NETTLES An Encouragement to Use Catechisms Southern Seminary Editorial Board: Dan DeWitt, Dan Dumas, Adam 28 JOHN DAVID TRENTHAM W. Greenway, Timothy Paul Jones, James A. Smith Sr., Randy Adolescent Moral Development in Christian Perspective L. Stinson, Jeff K. Walters, Steve Watters, Stephen J. Wellum, 52 SHANE PARKER and Gregory A. Wills The Function of Short-Term Mission Experiences in Christian Formation Peer Review Board: Gregg Allison, Phillip Bethancourt, Nathan Finn, Hal 72 JAKE DUNLOW Pettegrew, Brian Richardson, Perceptions of Spiritual Formation in the 21st Century Stuart Scott, Jarvis Williams, John Mark Yeats 104 DAVID SCHROCK Managing Editor Perspectives on Christ-Centered Family Discipleship and Web Content Editor: Coleman M. Ford 116 APPRECIATIVE REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPACT OF Associate Editors: Garrick Bailey and “FAMILY-BASED YOUTH MINISTRY” Nick Weyrens JDFM FORUM Book Review Editor: Lilly Park 118 INTERVIEW WITH MARK DEVRIES - FAMILY-BASED Cover Illustration: Daniel Carroll YOUTH MINISTRY: THEN AND NOW Typographer: Brittany Loop 122 BOOK REVIEWS Editorial Office 134 EQUIPPING THE GENERATIONS and Subscription Services: The Southern Baptist Derek Brown, Organizing for Successful Ministry Theological Seminary, Kevin DeYoung, Two Questions that May Greatly Improve Your Norton Hall 192, 2825 Lexington Road, Church’s Ministry Louisville, Kentucky 40280 Brian Howard, What Works for us (and might work for you) in Editorial Email: Family Worship [email protected] Garrett Kell, Should I Tell My Spouse About Struggles with Sexual Purity? www.familyministrytoday.com David Mathis, Bring the Bible Home to Your Heart R. Albert Mohler Jr., Why So Many Churches Hear So Little of the Bible Yearly subscription costs for two issues: Individual inside the U. S., $30; 2100, Chicago, IL 60606 USA. E-mail: [email protected], http://www.atla.com/. individual outside the U.S., $50; institutional inside the U. S., $50; institutional outside the U. S., $70. Opinions expressed in The Journal of Discipleship THE JOURNAL OF DISCIPLESHIP AND FAMILY MINISTRY is published and Family Ministry are solely the responsibility of the authors and are not semi-annually by the Gheens Center for Christian Family Ministry, necessarily those of the editors, members of the Peer Review and Advisory The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2825 Lexington Road, Board, or participants in forum articles. We encourage the submission of Louisville, KY 40280. Spring/Summer 2014 Vol. 4, No. 2 Copyright letters, suggestions, and articles by our readers. Any article submissions © 2013 The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. 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Wacker Dr., Suite JDFM 4.2 (2014): 2-5 Editorial: Family-Based Youth Ministry, Twenty Years Later TIMOTHY PAUL JONES was the first family Timothy Paul Family-Based Youth Ministry Jones oversees ministry book I ever read. online learning My first response was to reject family and teaches ministry as an utterly ridiculous and impractical in the areas of family idea in my context. ministry and It took two years for the struggles of ministry apologetics. Before coming and the work of the Spirit to change my mind. to Southern, he led churches in Missouri and Oklahoma as “I DON’T SEE ANY WAY THAT THIS COULD pastor and associate pastor. WORK HERE” Dr. Jones has received the Scholastic Recognition Award In 2002, I was called to oversee children’s and has authored or contributed ministry and Christian education in a growing to more than a dozen books, church. I had spent the previous three years including Conspiracies and as this congregation’s youth minister; now, in the Cross: Perspectives on Family Ministry; and, Christian addition to my other roles, I oversaw the new History Made Easy. In 2010, youth minister. A few months after the new Christian Retailing magazine youth minister arrived, he came into my office selected Christian History Made Easy as the book of the year in carrying a book with a cover that would have the field of Christian education. looked trendy a decade earlier. He is married to Rayann and “I’ve been reading this book,” he said, “and I they have three daughters: Hannah, Skylar, and Kylinn. really think we need to look into trying family- The Jones family serves in based ministry. This is what our students need.” SojournKids children’s ministry He held up his copy of Family-Based Youth at Sojourn Community Church. Ministry and began outlining what he had 2 3 2 3 learned. changed. Our church’s context was the “Well, I really like what you’re same as it had been for decades, but I describing,” I said once he had had recently transitioned into the role finished. “And that’s the way things of senior pastor. Looking at the church should be done in youth ministry. The from this new angle, I was concerned problem is, in this church, two-thirds as I saw fault lines emerging between of our students come from broken generations. What’s more, the church homes, and we just don’t have enough had continued to grow, and it was intact homes to support this. I’ll take becoming clear that the ministry staff a look at the idea, but I don’t see any needed help to be able to disciple way that this could work here.” people effectively. Once the youth minister finished One of the many factors that the book, he passed it on to me. I read came together that year for me was a few bits and pieces of Family-Based the recognition that God designed Youth Ministry and then shelved it. I the family to make disciples and had completed a bachelor’s degree in model Christ’s love for his church. biblical studies, a master of divinity, I began to look at the church’s and a doctorate in educational ministries from that perspective, leadership—but I had never read a and I remembered a book that I had book about family ministry. As such, shelved the year before. At the same I did find the book enlightening. time, I began an academic bridge Still, I knew this model would never program at The Southern Baptist succeed in my context. If God ever Theological Seminary to turn my called me to serve in an upper-income doctor of education degree into a suburban church, I might use this doctor of philosophy degree. These book—but not here, not in this seminars provided a context to wrestle low-income exurban neighborhood, with emerging ideas about church blighted with methamphetamine leadership. labs and abandoned trailer homes. Over the next three years in that When I was the youth minister, I had church, I began to implement more tried intergenerational activities with and more family ministry practices. mixed success, but I wasn’t willing to As I learned to reflect more effectively turn these ideas into a ministry-wide on my ministry, these ideas became strategy. increasingly rooted in my study of Scripture and theology. By the end, NEW ROLE, NEW CHALLENGES, many of the practices were the very NEW OPENNESS ones that metamorphosed into the A year or two later, much had family-equipping ministry model 4 5 described in Perspectives on Family DeVries and a few appreciative Ministry and Family Ministry Field reflections on the impact ofFamily- Guide. In the beginning, however, Based Youth Ministry. In addition to most of my ideas came from Family- these features, this issue also includes Based Youth Ministry, the very book a broad range of research articles and that I had shelved as impractical brief reflections on family discipleship a couple of years earlier. As I’ve and Christian formation. conversed with hundreds of family Beginning with this issue, Journal ministry veterans over the past eight of Discipleship and Family Ministry years, I have discovered that I am will be made available free of charge not alone. For many of us, Family- here: http://www.sbts.edu/resources/ Based Youth Ministry was our first publications/journal-of-discipleship- introduction to family ministry. and-family-ministry/. If you prefer a Family-Based Youth Ministry, printed journal, don’t despair! Print- Twenty Years Later on-demand versions will continue This year is the twentieth anniversary to be available, and—if you have of the first printing ofFamily-Based subscribed to Journal of Discipleship Youth Ministry. We’ve chosen to and Family Ministry—we will fulfill commemorate this anniversary with a your entire subscription. couple of significant research articles focused on ministry to adolescents (“Adolescent Moral Development Timothy Paul Jones, Ph.D. in Christian Perspective” and “The C. Edwin Gheens Professor of Function of Short-Term Mission Christian Family Ministry Experiences in Christian Formation”), The Southern Baptist Theological as well as an interview with Mark Seminary 4 5 JDFM 4.2 (2014): 6-26 An Encouragement to Use Catechisms TOM NETTLES Many contemporaries have a deep-seated Dr. Tom Nettles (Ph.D., South- suspicion of catechisms. In our own Baptist western Baptist Theological denomination, many would consider the words Seminary) is widely regard- “Baptist catechism” as mutually exclusive.
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