Emerging Africa

Hey guys,

I sometimes wonder if we shouldn't take a closer look to which sides our personal philosophy and theology scale tips?

Hey guys,

I really need some challenging around how to evangelize in our schools these days.

The company I work for trains up young adults as "Youth Coaches" placing them, full time, within a youth enviroment (whether school, childrens home or college). Their main focus is to give hope, vision for the future and answers for the unique challenges that the kids face on a daily basis. I personally Coach 29 of these guys (and gals) and they service 26 (completely mixed, racially, geograpically and economically) schools collectively containing about 26000 kids.

Now I've got two specific challenges in my thinking:

I sometimes (actually frequently) wonder what the effect of good intentioned, but possibly inaccurate, terminology is on the Body. We all know the devastating effects that false preaching has on Christianity, but I sometimes wonder if we aren't, subconsciously, doing even more damage with the seemingly innocent terminology used in church.

I just read an article where a gentleman tried explaining some of the failures experienced as leaders from different generational era's tried to create or develop the right church setting for the younger generations in their congregations.