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Ministry to a Disconnected Generation
Chap Clark
Fuller Seminary
www.chapclark.com
Twitter:
chapclarkSlide2
Ministry to a Disconnected Generation
Chap Clark
Fuller Seminary
www.chapclark.comTwitter: chapclark
Go to
chapclark.com
for
powerpoint
and outlineSlide3
Same kid…
Two conversationsSlide4
HISTORICALLY: - Fixed, in stages (Piaget, Erikson)
- Generational issues
- Assets (scaffolding)
and Pos Psych
Growing up today
What data tells us…Slide5
- “I get it; I’ve been there”
Growing up today
What data tells us…
CULTURALLY:
- What you see is all there is
- Spiritual development and
Human
development are different thingsSlide6
Timing and Duration
Puberty
Culture
14.5
16
Pre-1900
1970-1980
Today
13
18/20
12
mid-20sSlide7
Changing Stages
14-15
Dependent
Interdependent
11/12
19-21
Independent
mid-20s
early-30s?
Emerging Adulthood
J. J. ArnettSlide8
Teenage brain
“If
you think of the teenage brain as a car, today's adolescents acquire an accelerator a long time before they can steer and brake
.”
- WSJ,
What’s wrong with the teenage mind?
“ Alison
GopnikSlide9
What has happened??
An exponential loss of
Social Capital
… Slide10Slide11Slide12
Every child must be provided significant Social Capital
in order to become an adultSlide13
What a child needs:
14-15
Attachment that is
GENTLE
12
19-21
mid-20s
Social Capital
(Attachment)
Attachment that is
ENPOWERING
Attachment that is
I
NTERDEPENDENTSlide14
The State of Postmodern kids:
skills needed for successful adulthoodSlide15
ongoing adult support and guidance offered
The State of Postmodern kids:Slide16
skills needed
adult support
The State of Postmodern kids:Slide17
“
…These two trends have created a serious problem in our country, indeed a crisis.
”
Dr. James Comer, Yale University
Carnegie Corporation
’
s Commission on Youth Development and Community Programs, 1989
The State of Postmodern kids:Slide18
What has happened??
An exponential loss of
Social Capital
… Slide19
What has happened??
An exponential loss of
Social Capital
…
even in their familySlide20Slide21
A
sk a third grader to draw a picture of their family tree…Slide22
“Regardless of headlines labeling us ‘helicopter’ dads or ‘soccer’ moms, in many ways parents seem almost invisibly removed. Twenty-first century parent-managers, negotiating every single logistical challenge of their kids’ crammed schedules became too frenetically busy to be a magnetic presence in the internal landscape of a child’s world.”
- Childhood Unbound, Ron Taffle
Parental Rationalization:Slide23
How kids have been treated by adults…Slide24
Even in their friendships, even at church
… there can be a gnawing lonelinessSlide25
Youth and Children’s Ministry and the Fragmentation of the Church
The History of Intergenerational (or,
“
Family”) Ministry
Y.M.
ChurchSlide26
Church
Y.M.
The History of Intergenerational (or,
“
Family
”
)
Ministry
Youth and Children’s Ministry
and the Fragmentation of the Church Slide27
Church
Y.M.
C.M.
M.M.
W.M.
W.M.
C.M.
F.M.
“
Church
”
The History of Intergenerational (or,
“
Family
”
)
MinistrySlide28
4 Tiers of Developmental Influence
Parents
Non-parental committed adults
Non-
parental and
non-
committed adults/peers
Media, EcologySlide29
the point for us?
The church must provide the
SOCIAL CAPITAL
that young people need to BOTH
participate in the kingdom of God and to be NURTURED into adulthood by the household of faith
We listen
We
engage
We
initiate
We
empower!Slide30
Abandonment has created holes in the net…
Childhood Attachment
Community Attachment
Teacher
small group leaderSlide31
When there are holes in the net…
Childhood Attachment
Community Attachment
Youth Professional
Family Friend
Teacher/ Coach
Church Community
Youth
Leader
Adoptive Ministry
Social CapitalSlide32
the point for us?
The
TRAJECTORY
of ministry to the disconnected:Slide33
Adoptive Ministry
We are family… we are siblings
(John 1:12-13)
In every church, there are those are “in” and “out”
As an “adopted” child, I am given a new family
Jesus has his eye uniquely on the vulnerable
Adoption is immanent for the outsider
“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did for me” (Mt 25:40)
“
We are God’s offspring” (Paul, Acts 17:28)Slide34
Adoptive Ministry
The Goal of youth and children’s ministry is to participate with what God has declared is true by:
- Proactively encouraging each one to actively participate in the community with gifts, relationship and voice
- Corporately nurture, train, guide and protect the young and the vulnerable