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Pop worship music. Falling in love with Jesus. Mission trips. Wearing jeans and t-shirts to church. Spiritual searching and church hopping. Faith-based political activism. Seeker-sensitive outreach. These now-commonplace elements of American church life all began as innovative ways to reach young people, yet they have gradually become accepted as important parts of a spiritual ideal for all ages....

body of Christ will help all of us make wise decisions about how to work for the health of the church. At the very least, I hope that all of us will think carefully about which aspects of adolescent spirituality deserve to be championed and which need to be restrained. From what I have said so far, it might sound like juvenilization is a uniform process that produces the same effects everywhere. That is not true. Some churches seem less dominated by adolescent spirituality than others—but they often
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