Presence-Centered Youth Ministry - by Mike King (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Mike King proposes a youth ministry centered in the presence of God. Here, young people encounter Christ not in the flash and pop of arena ministry, but in the sacred shadow of his presence. This book gives shape to such ministry through the classic disciplines and potent symbols and practices that have sustained the church over the centuries.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>How many programs does it take to change a youth group? That question has bothered youth workers for decades, and the cracks in its logic are beginning to show. In place of the contrived, artificial mechanisms employed so widely in modern youth outreach and discipleship, Mike King proposes a ministry centered in the presence of God. Young people encounter Christ not in the flash and pop of arena ministry, but in the sacred shadow of his presence. They learn what it is to love and follow Christ by observing others loving and following Christ--letting Christ shape their worldviews, their habits, their virtues. <em>Presence-Centered Youth Ministry</em> gives shape to such ministry through the classic disciplines and potent symbols and practices that have sustained the church over the centuries. The sound and fury that has characterized youth ministry for so long has left too many youth workers tired and too many young people disillusioned. Come explore the deeper terrain; your students are sure to follow.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Though the job of youth ministers is challenging, this book's easy-to-read format offers suggestions and solutions for them that are both theoretical and pragmatic.--Catholic News Service, August 3, 2007<br><br><em>Presence-Centered Youth Ministry</em> is an excellent supplemental text useful for challenging some long-standing youth ministry thinking and practice. . . . his larger contribution may be in naming the specific task of youth ministers as bringing youth into the presence of God.--D. Andrew Zirschky for The Journal of Youth Ministry, Fall 2007<br><br>Mentioned as a Recommended Resource--Youth Worker Journal, September/October 2010<br><br>Mike King is old enough to have washed ashore with all the trends in the last 40 years or so in evangelicalism. He's tired of the programs and the catchy theories. He calls us back to the center, to knowing God, to being known by God, and living - and ministering to youth - out of that knowing and being known. With pastors like Mike King we've got glimpses of changes that will speak the gospel into the next generation.--Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed (blog.beliefnet.com/jesuscreed), November 26, 2008<br><br>This book has great value. Highly recommended!--The Lamplighter, August 2007<br><br>Whether a person has been working with youth for years or is trying to decide whether to lead a group for the first time, he or she will discover in this book an approach to helping young people mature spiritually.--Mary Lou Henneman, Congregational Libraries Today, March/April 2007<br><br>"Mike King has started a conversation that's long overdue and frequently ignored in youth ministry circles. In this thoughtful book he tells his own story with humble vulnerability, exposes the sacred cows we've let graze for far too long on the youth ministry landscape, and helps us see that ministry isn't about facilitating and teaching outward behavorial conformity. I'm sure this book will make many uncomfortable because of its subject and recommendations. Pick it up. Don't put it down. Prayerfully wrestle with Mike and his message. Keep reading. This book just might take you out of your comfort zone, but that's right where many of us need to be led in order to be able to carefully and faithfully lead young people into the life-changing presence of God."--Walt Mueller, Center for Parent/Youth Understanding and author of Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture<br><br>"Wow. Talk about stirring the pot! Mike King gets way out on some beautiful and truthful thin ice, naming many of the closely held wrong assumptions and faulty practices of modern youth ministry. Then he crosses to the other side of this thin ice, and suggests a path forward. Congrats to Mike, and to anyone willing to thoughtfully consider the ideas in this book!"--Mark Oestreicher, president, Youth Specialties<br>
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