Experimental Youth Ministry: Version 1.0

By B.C. Levasseur

Research. Study. Philosophy. Theology. Methods. Models. Programs. Praxes. Test. Assess. Do. Do. Do.

Is this right, is this wrong, is there a better way, should this continue?

There is no way anyone could write a book to include every context of everyone who might read it. Experimental Youth Ministry version 1.0 was designed for anyone involved in youth ministry. You the reader can interact and take part with all of the ideas, questions, and dialogues.

This will be a challenge; it will require you to think on your own. You will not be given the answers to the test. You must find them for yourself, for your ministry, for your context; this might involve some homework, but it will require effort.

Isolated, set apart from as many external influences as possible, you are invited to witness three youth ministers wrestle and interact with the variables that affect and effect this experiment, this phenomenon we call youth ministry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Dec 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781490811123

B.C. Levasseur

The author was born and is currently alive. He has served Christ as much as he can during that whole time –despite several difficulties- and it took him a long time to write this, his first book.

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Author’s Notes and Instructions

Preface

Introductions

Subjects

Salvation

Μαρτυρέω

Prayer

Mystery

Claim

Integrate

Rites

Recycle

Many Mind

Passion

Ingenuity

Teach

Disciple

Danger

Mission

Thanks to

James & April Cogdill

And

Mrs. Emily A. Duda, MDiv.

For your examples gave me courage and encouragement to write my first book and to finish it.

Dedication

This is to all those who seek truth without a traditional guide, who seek justice without approved scales, who seek wisdom without a standard compass. This is to those with ears to hear what the Spirit says to the Churches; for the only way is Christ.

This is to those who have sought for salvation among men, who search for the Divine among mortals, who cannot see or understand the deformities and perversions we have brought upon ourselves; for the only truth is Christ.

This is to all the people who have been damaged by failure, injured by human inability, haunted by hesitation –casualties of the unspoken war waged by hypocrisy and legalism; for the only life is Christ.

This is to all those people out

there who —for the sake of freedom, increased intimacy with YHWH, advancing the Kingdom of Heaven while reducing the size of Christendom— have joined in the

sufferings of our LORD at the hands of HIS bride, the Church; for Christ is.

Dedication

1. Matthew 22

Author’s Notes and Instructions

It took a long time to write this small book. At first,