the doctrine of the incarnation of Christ as the central theological motif for youth ministry?

In a recent article in Southern Cross on youth ministry this idea was referred to several times.

Can someone please explain what is meant by this?

Can we be ‘the concrete presence of Christ’ to people?

thanks Di

Di, I’ve got the latest Southern Cross right next to me but I haven’t yet found what you are referring to.

Can you give a few relevant quotes?

Gordon

It was an article titled ‘Mission Impossible?’ June p14-15

thanks Di

Got it! Thanks heaps. I’ll have a read.

Graham Stanton will be disagreeing (I think) with this view at the theology of youth ministry conference:

Revisiting Incarnational Youth Ministry: Ward v Root v Stanton
Rev Graham Stanton, Principal, Youthworks College

The “Root” in the above quote is Andrew Root. He put out a book last year called Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry

i think that stanton will argue that the atonement is the central theological motif of youth ministry… but i’m not certain - the conference hasn’t happened yet!!

the buzz phrase in incarnational youth ministry is: we gotta be Jesus to people.

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is this article online yet?? or just in the print edition??

Yes David that’s the thrust of Stanton’s article that Dianne refers to…