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NYMC: Day Four
After some great worship with Tim Timmons and another devotional piece by Duffy Robbins, the day started differently than the last two. We no longer were in our 8 hour intensive tracks. We could chose a number of different shorter tracks. I chose Mark DeVries, president and founder of Youth Ministry Architects. His track was […]
Social Control Unit
Mark D. Regnerus argues in his book, Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers, that churches are not much more than “social control units.” What he means by that is, the church is designed to bend adolescent (for that matter any age group) behavior away from the norm and “helps prevent […]
Outflow: Week 2
Here is the teaching outline from Week 2 of our series, Outflow: Evidences of a Life of Outflow •John 4.1-26—crosses cultural boundaries •Luke 19.1-10—risks personal reputation •Mark 1.40-45—willing to get dirty •Mark 8.22-26—willing to do the unbelievable We divided the students up into four groups and we had them take one of the passages above. […]