Analysis Of Schafer´s Unleashing God's Word In Youth Ministry

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INTRODUCTION

This is a summary of the four books that were read for Student Discipleship. Along with the summary are my own personal reflections on how the book has impacted myself and my approach the student ministry.

SHAFER: UNLEASHING GOD’S WORD IN YOUTH MINISTRY

SUMMARY

The first book is Schafer’s Unleashing God’s Word in Youth Ministry, in this book Schafer is trying to demonstrate how to implement the Bible in youth ministry in a more in depth way. Schafer’s plan is to help ministers out in the area of Bible studies. In the first part of the book, Schafer is trying to tell the reader to be prepared and why it is important to be well prepared. In the second part of the book, Schafer explains how to show the three steps of observing, …show more content…

I was only required to read certain chapter so the review will be over chapters one, two, seven, eight , ten and eleven. In the first two chapters of the book Mueller takes on the actuality of teenagers and their culture. In the meat of the book Mueller specifically goes in depth on issues most prevalent to teenagers. In chapter seven, he discusses peer pressure and how it has changed over the years from bullying peer pressure to peer pressure now that is all about expectancy to do things. In chapter eight, he dives into sex and how the culture today over sexalizes everthing and the importance in talking to the teen about sex and its intended role. Mueller then gives how the culture pushes the knowledge of sex and disregards the dangers of sex. In chapter ten, he talks about substance abuse such as drugs and alcohol. This chapter entails how students get into substance abuse and the reasons why they continue to do it along with tips to talk to the teens about substance abuse. The last chapter, eleven, Mueller talks about depression and suicide. He gives ways to spot depression and talks about the culture saying that everyone is depressed. Throughout the book Mueller riddles the books with great statistics and facts that drive home his point in each chapter. This book is not only great for youth ministers but also for

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