If you are a vocational youth pastor I want to invite you to participate in what I believe will be a strategic “think-tank” for vocational youth pastors during this summer’s Teen Leadership Conference at Baptist Bible College. The leadership team at TLC has given me the opportunity to meet with youth pastors during the workshop times to initiate a conversation on the important topic of teaching doctrine and theology to today’s teenagers!
Perhaps you’ve read Mark Driscoll’s new book Doctrine or maybe you’ve seen the recent Christianity Today series on how millennials have a passion for life-related truth. These authors are substantiating the comprehensive research done by Dr. Christian Smith and others that touts the idea that today’s young people are hungering for deeper, serious teaching in Biblical truth. Friends, I am convinced that we are working with a generation that wants to know what they believe!
It is to that end that I would love to meet with a group of church youth pastors about this very, very important matter. I’d love to hear your ideas of what you are doing with your students. How are you helping your students internalize and personalize doctrinal truth? I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how to teach theology to teenagers. We’ll meet during the youth workers’ sessions at TLC, but our meetings will be discussion-driven and very interactive. Not only do I want to hear your input, but I also believe it will be incredibly valuable for our group of youth pastors to learn what other guys from around the country are doing.
If you have any curriculum or teaching materials that you have developed on the subject of teaching theology to teenagers, please bring a copy of it along. Part of our discussion will be to share these materials with each other – and maybe even open a discussion about publishing some collaborative material together on this topic.
Anyway, please consider being a participant in our group during TLC. We’d love to hear what you think and I know that other youth pastors will learn much from your thoughts as well. Thanks. I’ll see you at TLC in just a few weeks.
Baptist Bible College is located just up the road from my office here in Clarks Summit, PA. For more information about Teen Leadership Conference take a look at: http://www.bbc.edu/tlc2010.
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