Faith Beyond Youth Group: Five Ways to Form Character and Cultivate Lifelong Discipleship

The work done here is well done. It is well-researched and offers space for everyone reading to learn and grow. In addition, they do comment on some of the more complex processes of addressing issues currently in the church that will plague it as they open with the toughest to overcome: character, which requires the work of building new determinants. The work of creating a space of authenticity and empathy has been heard, but the way it addresses the direction of needing to fulfill the work of the understanding of character from examples of the Bibles that have support in seeing the difficulty and challenge of humanity while finding hope and examples of faith being imperfect and beautiful. Good reminders: it takes a lot of consistent offerings to support building these more authentic relationships and an offering of not expertise in space but shared community of equitable desires for all involved. Recommended reading for all people working with teens in the church and outside of it.