Care about youth ministry?

Want to empower your students for courageous and contagious faith?

My friend Terry Linhart, Ph. D.,  is about to release a great new resource titled Evangelism Remixed (co-authored by Dave Rahn).

Terry is the Dean of  the School of Religion and Philosophy at Bethel College.

 He’s also the Director of Youth Ministries Program and the Associate Professor of Youth Ministry.

Evangelism Remixed reminds you of the importance of helping students develop their faith to the point where they naturally influence others for Christ in their everyday lives.

This practical book offers principles that will enable you to evaluate your ministry’s evangelism effectiveness and provides step-by-step tools to help you put the concepts into real-life practice.

If you know someone in youth ministry be sure to grab them a copy. Evangelism Remixed is published by Zondervan/Youth Specialties and releases July 1.

Check out the pic from Mark Hall, one of the key guys involved in Men Following Christ, the group I spoke to on Saturday morning in Indiana (which by the way is an amazing work of God…120 guys from 30 different denominations).

My talk centered on a chapter from The Fine Line, called Thy Kingdom Come. If you got the book, then check out pg. 194 in order to understand why I’d pass out pink Baskin-Robbins spoons when talking about the Kingdom. Thanks Mark for the pic. If you’ve heard me give the talk on embodying the kingdom, then shoot me a pic with your pink spoon and I’ll post it.

Adjunct Professor Mark Artrip, is leading a youth module this weekend at  our church for the Youth Ministry Major’s at Grace College. I will be teaching a session on the strengths of Topical Preaching. Although I support Exegetical Preaching as well below is some of my Biblical Support for Topical Teaching:

Topical Teaching

I.                    Biblical Examples of Topical Teaching

A.     Jesus did it. (Luke 24:27)

B.     The Psalmist did it. (Psalm 78)

C.     Peter did it. (Acts 2:14-36)

D.     Stephen did it. (Acts 7:2-53 )

E.      Philip did it. (Acts 8:35)

F.      Paul did it. (Acts 26:22; 28:23)

II.                 Cultural Examples of Topical Teaching

A.     Used to solve a cultural/theological problem. (Acts 15:7-21)

B.     Used to build a bridge with a godless culture. (Acts 17:22-32)