This week we welcome Josh Rice to discuss what it means to be a pentecostal youth worker.
Picks of the Week:
- Josh R. – Cadences of Home: Preaching Among Exiles
- Sara – Touch: Pressing Against the Wounds of a Broken World
- Joel – Love Is an Orientation
- Josh C. – Help! I’m a Junior High Youth Worker!
Got input? Feel free to leave a comment or email us youthhacks@gmail.com.
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I enjoyed the show, peeps. Sorry I couldn’t join you but many of the thoughts I have had were expressed (two notable ones are the potential prospects for Pentecostalism in postmodernity; and the similarities between Pentecostal and Catholic spirituality).
One thing I would like to add is the element of eschatological urgency. There is a powerful dynamic in Pentecostalism (though not unique to it) in this idea that time is running out, and each day is an opportunity to share Christ. Each youth service is an opportunity for a young person to be redeemed. And on the one hand, while I don’t live each day saying, ‘Jesus might come back tonight and so-and-so still isn’t saved,’ there is nonetheless a very real urgency to Pentecostal youth ministry.
Again, I enjoyed the show, and laughed at Josh R.’s ‘vitriolic’ language.
By the way, is it just me or does Josh Rice sound more southern when he’s talking about the Church o’ God?
1. Methodist guy here. Just getting to this episode because of…Choir Tour. Mississippi and Atlanta for us.
2. Seriously, it is interesting that Joel is working at a deep South UMC. (I used to work in a South Georgia Conference church.)
3. I came up in the early 90s and it was interesting to see how some Pentecostalism move into the mainline churches. The Wesley Foundation at the school I went to was more pentecostal than some of the pentecostal churches in our area. And Passion definitely moved what was considered “pentecostal worship” into the mainstream. (If you can run down the first 7:22 record, listen to it. Man, it is old school four part harmony Marantha. Interesting that Passion eventually came out of it.)