Stu, Tim and Joel get together once more to go through the fourth and final approach detailed in Mark Senter's Four Views of Youth Ministry - the Inclusive Congregational approach. There are some similarities between the Shock Absorber and the approach. Two key differences emerge:
1. The importance of listening to young people
2. How that is facilitated by providing a space for them to experiment with their own expression of church and a space for the whole church to communicate and discuss those experiments.
01:22 Cultural Artefact - Blended movie
03:58 What is the Inclusive Congregational approach?
09:07 Should children and youth be part of everything, all the time?
15:01 Young people need the space to experiment and a place for us to communicate together
18:32 Inclusive Congregational reacts to the Homogeneous Unit Principle but misses the cultural context
19:34 Contrasting between the Strategic approach and the Inclusive Congregational model
21:57 Allowing children to be children
37:12 The perceived need to fit everything into a one hour service, and opening up to create more opportunities for discipleship and mission
48:14 Allowing teenagers to be teenagers
53:32 Embracing difference and being one big family
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DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODEThe Four Views of Youth Ministry, by Mark Senter IIIBlendedThe Coming Revolution of Youth Ministry, by Mark Senter IIIErik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development-----------------------------------------
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