“Hope trusts in the promises of God. Hope seeks the action of God that brings forth a new reality. Optimism stands in the current reality, wishing to make the best of each individual experience. But hope stands knee deep in the history of this reality by yearning for the action of God to bring forth a new reality in which everything in this reality is reconciled and redeemed.” HopeTheologyMissionYouth MinistryPractical TheologyTheology Of The Cross Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“Ministry is about joining God where God can be found.” MinistryYouth MinistryPractical Theology Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“Friendship means we are obligated to one another, but obligated in a way that doesn't destroy our freedom.” FriendshipYouth Ministry Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new.” MissionYouth MinistryMission Trip Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“A mission trip in youth ministry is not about bringing the resurrection; It is about witnessing to the resurrection.” Youth MinistryMission Trip Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“Youth ministry is not about getting things accomplished - only the act of God can bring about the transformation we seek. Youth ministry is about participating deeply in young people's lives as we await, together in suffering & joy, the coming of God.” Youth Ministry Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“Sabbath is a period of 'trying on' God's promised completion, trying on God's future. Sabbath is not rest for a privileged few while all others serve them – that's tourism. Sabbath is the inviting of all creation to be still and imagine the coming of God.” SabbathYouth MinistryEschatology Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“Paul connects faith and hope. Rather than saying young people have faith if they believe without doubt, it might be better to say they have faith if, up against doubt, fear, and struggle, they hope.” HopeYouth MinistryEschatology Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person of Jesus Christ, when we follow his call through our person, we're sent to act for the concrete person of our neighbor in the world.” TheologyYouth MinistryBonhoefferCostly Grace Book:Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker: A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together Source: Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker: A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together
“The Anselmian call for "faith seeking understanding" may start and gather it's energy not in rational study of past theological points but in the pursuit to make sense of our concrete and lived experiences of Jesus who finds us in a hole, knocks us from our horse, or comes to our daughter in her sleep.” TheologyPractical TheologyAnselmChristopraxis Book:Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross Source: Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross
“The resurrection is the promise that death will not prevail, that nothingness does not have the last word. God promises to overcome it with life... We can trust that God will overcome death because Jesus is the resurrection, because on the third day Jesus rose again, as the first of many.” TheologyResurrectionPractical Theology Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry
“The Anselmian call for "faith seeking understanding" may start and gather its energy not in rational study of past theological points but in the pursuit to make sense of our concrete and lived experiences of Jesus who finds us in a hole, knocks us from our horse, or comes to our daughter in her sleep.” TheologyPractical TheologyTheology Of The CrossAnselmChristopraxis Book:Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross Source: Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross
“We are the relationships that make us; we have our being in and through relationships that place us into reality, and therefore we are open ontologically to the possibility of encounter.” Relational Ontology Book:Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross Source: Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross
“Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.” ApathyMissionYouth Ministry Book:Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry Source: Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry