Comments on: reproducible youth ministry models and ym3.0 http://whyismarko.com/2009/reproducible-youth-ministry-models-and-ym30/ life, faith, youth ministry, emerging church, leadership, whimsy Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:29:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Geoff Matheson http://whyismarko.com/2009/reproducible-youth-ministry-models-and-ym30/comment-page-1/#comment-1187368 Geoff Matheson Mon, 25 May 2009 05:23:21 +0000 http://www.ysmarko.com/?p=5691#comment-1187368 While I love the article, I'm afraid I don't share the author's optimism that "in 10 years we will not see any reproducible youth ministry models." Not because we shouldn't, but because in many ways I think it is human nature to see success (whether real or perceived) somewhere else and want to reproduce that. There will always be cross-pollenation of ideas, and the imposing figure of the "big church up the road" is so often almost impossible to ignore. I know for myself that it was a very difficult thing to say "I don't think that's a good fit for our group of kids" when we were discussing doing things more like our local larger church. And it's an even more difficult thing to communicate that without denigrating (or sounding as though you are denigrating) someone else's ministry. Having said that, I hope we can grow to doing things with a more contextually and theologically minded approach. Fantastic article. While I love the article, I’m afraid I don’t share the author’s optimism that “in 10 years we will not see any reproducible youth ministry models.” Not because we shouldn’t, but because in many ways I think it is human nature to see success (whether real or perceived) somewhere else and want to reproduce that. There will always be cross-pollenation of ideas, and the imposing figure of the “big church up the road” is so often almost impossible to ignore. I know for myself that it was a very difficult thing to say “I don’t think that’s a good fit for our group of kids” when we were discussing doing things more like our local larger church. And it’s an even more difficult thing to communicate that without denigrating (or sounding as though you are denigrating) someone else’s ministry.

Having said that, I hope we can grow to doing things with a more contextually and theologically minded approach. Fantastic article.

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