Youth Ministry 101
Youth Ministry 101 (26)
In Youth Ministry 101, Adam Ericksen shares his experiences and insights from his work in Christian formation with middle school and high school students. His contemporary topics and engaging methods offer wisdom for all ages.
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Adam reflects on the middle school and high school discussion about Rob Bell's Nooma video Noise.
Session 10: Sex Talk 3: Taio Cruz and King David
Written by Adam Ericksen
Adam discusses sex, music videos, and King David.
Here's the link to Break Your Heart on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SI2EDM6Lo&NR=1
Adam discusses Jacob and Esau, Jesus and the Holy Spirit of Forgiveness.
Adam discusses Satan the Accuser.
The Bible portrays hell as a place humans create on earth. Jesus invites us to live into the Kingdom of Heaven. Hell and Heaven are both a way of live. We can live into one or the other.
Session 6: Jesus and Nietzsche: Dionysus vs the Crucified
Written by Adam Ericksen
Nietzsche was the first person to set the options before us: Dionysus or the Crucified?
The Bible never claims that God is perfect, but it does claim that God is Love. God's telos, or purpose, is Love.
Discussing sex and the Trinity with the youth group.
Our first discussion on faith and sex. In order to understand Paul's vision that the human body is a temple and what that might mean for sex, compare it with this scene from HBO's mini-series Rome. Roman cultic practices involved sex, or orgies, in order to get closer to the gods. They would use one another's bodies for sexual experience, with the pretext that it would get them closer to divinities. Paul understood this for what it was: the abuse of another person's body for one's own self gratification. For Christianity, sex is about mutually giving all of one's self over to the other. (Warning, I have cut out the bad language in the video. Still, it's pretty graphic, so use discretion with your group.)
