Pub Date : 2023-12-25DOI: 10.1177/07398913231220407
Jesse Joyner
The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of a lived calling for Christian variety performers. A basic qualitative study method was employed to explore vocational meaning-making among thirty seasoned Christian variety performers (jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, clowns, and other similar entertainers) who claim to live out a life calling through their vocations. Based on the findings from this study, the major themes were named as journey, joy, community, and oblation.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1177/07398913231220410
Laura Cabaniss
In recent decades, pragmatic youth ministry has produced resources on engaging programs, relational equity, practical organization, or family ministry. While all of these are helpful and necessary, they have left a gap in teaching formation resources for volunteer youth leaders. This article surveys the trends in recent literature, reviews current resources, and seeks to show the importance of teaching resources for youth volunteers that address both preparation for teaching and flexibility and adaptability when teaching.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1177/07398913231198256
Terrelle B. Sales
By critically analyzing a passage from the Gospel of Luke (10:25-37), this article seeks to illustrate Jesus’ intentional and purposeful use of culture within His pedagogical decisions to critically engage and challenge His audience. The evaluation of Jesus as teacher is critical to position the pedagogy of Jesus as a viable instructional framework for Christian educators to consider who are committed to biblical justice and improving academic achievement for culturally diverse learners.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231158173h
A. Sosler
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231152267
E. Peck, Titus Bryant
This paper explores how empathy is necessary for ministry with young adults. Through qualitative research based on a two-years long process of teaching design thinking for the purposes of innovative ministry with youth adults, we find that empathy is a capacity that can be developed through conversations with young adults. We also show that developing empathy also includes self-reflection and a commitment to act on what one has learned through such conversations.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231161374
John David Trentham
This article presents an extended meditation exercise on Christian learning through the lived experience of frailty. It was composed at various points of calendar distance from the author's experience of sudden cardiac arrest. The structure of the meditation conforms to a catechetical–doctrinal framework, appealing to didache, didaskalia, and didasko. An original poem by Dan Haase is referenced and included in the appendix.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231158173c
Tyler R. Groves
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231158173a
Cynthia L. H. Stephens
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231158173i
Ok-Joo Jeon
the dominant voices in our Christian cultural engagement. But the term “engaging culture” (a term used in the book’s subtitle) is a bit fabricated. It assumes a culture that exists “out there,” and we engage it. The problem is that culture has engaged us before we evaluate it. And so, Bailey wisely guides the reader into discernment rather than the mere evaluation of ideas (i.e., this is good vs. this is bad). Beckoning proverbs, Bailey writes “rightly discerning between the voices (of wisdom and folly) requires us to become a particular kind of person” (p. 7). As such, evaluating the cultural landscape is less a matter of content and more a matter of who’s discernment are we using. Like Paul at the Aerogapus in Acts 17, the gospel comes not as a rejection of culture (“your poems are bad”) or a replacement of culture (“here’s some better poems”) but the fulfillment of culture (“your poems point to something true and good fulfilled in Jesus”). Rather than the stale categories we often inherit in contemporary Christianity, Bailey provides the reader with several lenses on how Christians can more faithfully discern culture. These same categories can apply to Christian ministry and faith integration, as well. Rather than having to reject movies or songs, these five lenses can help us learn something from cultural artifacts. Or rather than having to replace “secular” learning theories from those who aren’t of the Christian faith sources, we can point to the good, true, and beautiful and lead others to see the fullness of Christian theology. I appreciate the range of sources and topics from which Bailey draws. He is theologically and philosophically indiscriminate (a virtue in my eyes). He celebrates truth wherever it is found, which seems to be modeling the posture toward a culture that he recommends throughout the book. Because of his wide range, his approach is dynamic. Bailey attempts to bridge the world of culture and theology in dynamic ways. Striking a balance of what I’ll call “accessibly deep”—he uses complex ideas but explains the in understandable ways—Justin Bailey has written a perceptive work on how exactly we are meant to interpret our world. *A version of this review was originally published in a newsletter from FareForward. http://farefwd.com/index.php/2022/11/30/interpreting-your-world
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231152503
Chris Min
This qualitative study is designed to explore how tween (ages 8–12) children shepherds in house church ministry develop their positive self-concept, through their helping leadership experience over other children. The purpose of the current study is articulated in the following three research questions: (a)What is the influence on self-concept development? (b) What environment/relational factors impact self-concept? (c) What is the influence of systematic support on tweens’ leadership experience? A total of 30 children shepherds participated in in-depth interviews (n = 30); 27 children shepherds’ parents participated in the short surveys (n = 27): seven ministers/volunteers participated in unstructured interviews (n = 7) from five different local churches with the house church ministry in Texas and California. There are seven emerging themes implicating that children shepherds in the tween period could develop their positive self-concept along with the development of sociability, pro-sociality, and proactivity. Children shepherds’ holistic self-concept development is brought up by the social-emotional and programmatically practical support from church ministry. At the same time, this development can potentially influence their successful social adjustment in the faith community so that they can contribute to building up the body of Christ as members of the church in return. Furthermore, these findings extend their implications to examine the possibility of building up a novel model for the new era of children's ministry—Ministry by Children as children lead the ministry with their active participation and holistic dedication to their faith community.
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