Mark Yaconelli's Contemplative Youth Ministry

I started reading Mark Yaconelli's Contemplative Youth Ministry today while I waited for our server to come back online. I need to figure out how to kick the server off more often.

I didn't get out of the introduction before the Spirit of God was whispering to me, "See, this is what I've been trying to get you to see and hear. Slow down. You're too busy. Stop. Be still. Be...that's it--just be with Me..."

One thought that I want to remember today, from page 39:

...the purpose of youth ministry isn't just to help young people learn morality, as important as that is; it's to help them enter into the alternative way of life that Jesus offers. It's to help young people unmask the principalities and powers that seek to bind us--to help them live in freedom. It's to help youth learn the practices, understandings, and disposition that will keep them close to the source of life revealed in Jesus Christ.