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\n<\/strong><\/em>, has a bundle of suggestions and I want to discuss a few of them today.<\/p>\nWhat do you think? Are any of you in YM 3.0? What are you seeing? What are your suggestions?<\/b><\/p>\n
If the focus is affinity and we need to move more into communion and mission, what will 3.0 youth ministries look like?<\/p>\n
We may need to develop multiple youth ministries within the same church to speak into multiple youth cultures.<\/p>\n
We may need one youth ministry with a dream of supra-culture, kingdom of God culture.<\/p>\n
Or a hybrid of the two. He makes several proposals, like one group for some stuff and smaller groups for other things.<\/p>\n
We may need to cut programs; we may need to get small; provide opportunities for youth to experience God. We need to be \u201ccommunional.\u201d It is small, slow, simple, fluid, present, and Jesus-y.<\/p>\n
We need to focus on integrating teenagers with the church. And we need to be more missional.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/span> So, what can we do? Marko, in his new book, Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We\u2019ve Been, Where We Are & Where We Need to Go<\/a>