I spent ages writing essays when I was in college. This is what you're meant to do, I understand that and I'm fine with it, but perhaps I spent too much time of those ages worrying about making my essays amusing as opposed to academic. Alas, but my curriculum vitae losses are your gain, for just earlier while trying to track down a quote from Danny Brierly that I knew I'd used in an essay somewhere, low and behold I found a whole essay. Which wasn't really that surprising on balance. I laughed at myself though, so for your edification I'll quote the most enlightening section;
I shall now look at two related youth work based models of ministry and see how this theology of ministry and of relationships fits with them.
Perhaps the most pertinent model of youth ministry is what Pete Ward describes as 'The Relational Model Of Youth Work'. In Ward's own words:
Ward, 1994, Youth Work and How to Do it."This model is based on four very simple principles
- Christian adults meeting young people where the young people themselves hang out and feel comfortable.
- Christian adults forming supportive friendships based on the interests and activities of young people.
- Christian adults taking the time to share the message about Jesus in the terms and ways that make sense within the cultural world of the young people.
- Young people who have heard the message of Jesus and responded to Him starting to form their own worship"
This is a very commonly used youth ministry model but it is necessary to note here that relational youth work is often deemed a failure because it doesn't bring any young people into an actual relationship with God. Relationships are built, but it is still a rare occasion when a young person makes a decision to follow Christ and carries on with it.
Danny Brierly develops the relational model in his book "Joined Up, An Introduction To Youthwork and Ministry" Danny Brierley, 2003, Joined Up: An Introduction to Youthwork and Ministry. I'm unaware if anyone has shown that this developed model of youth work ministry (know as the incarnational model of youth work) comes out of the perceived failure in the relational model of youth work, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone did. If you've got hundreds of young people coming along to an after school club but you aren't getting them anywhere near Christ then what you need is either firm faith that you're "sowing the seeds" for the imminent revival that will magically convert them all or, if you're not a Pentecostal, some way of making your work valid so you can feel like you're doing something valuable for the Kingdom of God. Enter incarnational youth ministry.
i think your being a bit hasty to diss the realtioanl model. it dose have its issues and unlike the nucleus model is dependent on the relationship between the youth worker and young person but is it any less effective than the nucleus model not as in many cases the nucleus model only works if the youth are willing to bring there friends in and in a culture which says god is rubbish and calls us bible bashers it makes it very hard for the youth to bring there friends in.
we have to accept there is no perfect model and if we look at the relational model from a bases of bring kids to christ it needs work but looking at it in the case of loco parentis it is amazing and fits perfectly.
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