life to which we are called: each other. We have left today’s abandoned adolescents as solitary spiritual nomads. For forty years of well-intentioned youth ministry, we have ignored their need for a choir of saints in order to grow up to maturity in Christ. If the gathering of God’s people is not a body, or a family of families, and is reduced to a friendly network of individuals, it is not the way of Jesus, and we are not the church. When we graduate a “solid,” core member of our youth program,