Worship with Teenagers
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Preaching & Worship
- Publisher: Baker Academic (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
This book addresses the vital role of public Christian worship in adolescent spiritual formation and shows how important youth ministry and worship ministry are to each other. Despite numerous research projects, books, articles, and resources that have been published about teenagers and about worship in recent years, the relationship between the two has been addressed only peripherally if not altogether overlooked. Drawing on his extensive experience in worship ministry and youth ministry, Eric Mathis offers insights into the worship practices of teenagers, corrects common misperceptions about worship, and critically examines four prominent worship models in current practice. Mathis invites youth pastors, worship leaders, ministerial students, and congregations to elevate the voices of young people in the worshiping community and enhance worship for all ages. The book includes a foreword by Kenda Creasy Dean.
Endorsements (3)
“A perceptive and thought-provoking invitation to reconsider typical approaches to both youth ministry and public worship in congregations, parachurch organizations, Christian schools, and campus ministries. Mathis writes with deep awareness of the pastoral riches of historic patterns of Christian worship and with deep gratitude for the gifts, insights, and capacities that God lavishes on teenagers. This book challenges simplistic limits that we too often impose on intergenerational communities and particular generational cohorts and invites us to a richer and deeper way of worshiping together. This is also an ideal book for parents, guardians, and grandparents to read to glimpse new possibilities for providing spiritual encouragement to their teenagers—and for learning from them and with them.”
““While there are plentiful resources for youth ministry, worship scholar Mathis perceptively observes that there is a serious lack of scholarship on adolescent spiritual formation. Having read Worship with Teenagers, I am impressed by the careful investigative work supporting Mathis’s bold claim that ‘when congregations choose to engage teenagers in the worship life of the church, all ages in the church are enriched, connected, encouraged, and strengthened for the ministry of the gospel of Jesus Christ.’ Indeed, Mathis’s book is essential reading for church leaders wanting to revitalize their congregation.”
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