of the church’s students?) “Success” is defined in terms of high-energy events that students experience in virtual isolation from other generations. Such youth and children’s ministries seem to expect students to become integrated with their families at home even as they model the dis-integration of their families at church. So why has this model survived so long? It seems to me that in many congregations a single false assumption has maintained the mutant mouse’s vigor long after it should have
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