Reading Another REALLY Good Book!

"During the last century, church and parachurch youth ministries alike have increasingly (and often unwittingly) held to a single strategy that has become the defining characteristic of this model: the isolation of teenagers from the adult world and particularly from their own parents."   Mark DeVries


Too often, our children, the children of The Body are growing up simply to walk away from the Church, or living only mediocre lives lacking in power and victory. That is not our heritage in Christ!


This book delves into the reasons behind the problems we face in growing our children up and maturing them in the Faith so that they live vibrant, radiant lives reflecting Christ to a lost and dying world.


A full review will come later, after I actually finish the book, but for now, a few morsels to chew on:

The thing that impresses me most about America

is the way parents obey their children.

Edward, Duke of Windsor (1895-1977)

Adolescence has become a waiting period 

of enforced leisure with few responsibilities and

little or no meaningful contact with adults.

Adolescent Rolelessness in Modern Society,

A report of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development

Ours is the only era in the entire history

of human life on this planet in which the "elders"

of the tribe ask its newer members what the tribal rules

and standards of expected behavior would be.

Paul Ramsey, Ethicist, Princeton University

More often than not, children are learning major value systems in life

from the horizontal peer-culture. The vertical structure is not there

in adequate increments of time or intensity to do the job.

Gordon MacDonald

The Effective Father

The culture of the electronic media prescribes perpetual adolescence

and consumption as developmental ideals.

Indeed, perpetual adolescence and consumption constitute the

twin-pronged gospel of these media.

Quentin J. Schultze Et Al.,

Dancing in the Dark

Each of these quotes is taken from page 34 of the book, at the opening of Chapter 2! Ring true? Curious about the rest of the book? 

Me, too!