Giving Up Gimmicks

On the program today we will discuss a new book: Giving Up Gimmicks - Reclaiming Youth Ministry from an Entertainment Culture.

The book gives youth pastors, youth leaders, and parents a guide on how to lead a gospel-rich youth ministry that makes the means of grace -- Word, prayer, sacraments, service, and community -- central to the ministry. When youth groups elevate experience over truth, they drive away the teenagers they hope to attract. Here is a ministry approach, grounded in Christ and patterned after the means of grace, that brings them back.

My guest on the program today will be Brian Cosby