COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students will develop a Biblical and theological foundation of relational youth evangelism.  The course will include a critique of modern youth evangelism techniques based on theological premises and psycho-social developmental issues.  Students will also learn and evaluate Youth for Christ’s 3Story Evangelism^® approach to doing discipleship evangelism. (3 credits)

A WORD FROM PROFESSOR GERALI . . .

Evangelism - a word that tends to conjure up negative images for both believers and nonbelievers.  As a youth minister you probably are deeply concerned for both personally reaching out to students and for equipping your students to reach their peers.  Yet it’s hard isn’t it?  You have a desire to be part of God’s process of changing lives, you love students, but perhaps your experience with evangelism is something less than positive.   My hope is that this class will be of real help to you in your evangelism journey. 

• This class will contribute to your Biblical and theological foundation of discipleship evangelism.  Discipleship evangelism (at least in my mind) implies that the goal of evangelism is “disciples” (as opposed to “converts”).  We’ll be studying the Bible, trying to look afresh at just what God is calling us to do in evangelism.  

• From the Biblical/theological foundation that you’ll develop we’ll move on to explore the ramifications of that foundation to varying evangelism models.  I’m the kind of person who is deeply concerned about why we do what we do, but if our foundation leaves us without a good plan of action (youth ministers are almost always doers), it is less than ideal in my mind.  I want our ministries to have integrity and to be effective so I’ll be encouraging you to evaluate and develop a plan for evangelism within your specific ministry setting.

• I believe that motivation is a key component to evangelism.  My desire is that when you finish with this class that you feel deeply encouraged and equipped to strengthen the evangelism efforts within your ministry situation.

YL 515 REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 4, 2009

YL 515 major assignments: Explore 850 pages in five different textbooks; read a number of articles;  learn Youth for Christ’s 3 Story Evangelism^®, 5 different 2-page papers, develop an evangelism plan for a specific ministry setting.

Huntington Lodging Details

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