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Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs around Them (Youth Specialties)

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This book is a must read for all those who have a heart for teenagers and care about the church. The days of entertaining youth, keeping them busy with church activities, and just trying to help them "make it" through their school years are over. This book points to a new and much needed understanding of what it means to help teenagers participate in embodying and witnessing to the Kingdom of God in their lives. The greatest value of this work is not that is adds to or even changes the sorts of things students can be a part of, but that helps to establish an entirely fresh paradigm of what it means to think about and do youth ministry. If you are not ready to rethink "youth ministry" from the bottom up leaving no stone unturned, then understand, this will be quite a dangerous read. Otherwise, it's a must have!

This book, Deep Justice in a Broken World, is a much needed resource in a world of fast food, fast cars, and fast relationships. The authors cause us to stop and reflect on how to develop character, true character, in a generation that is trapped in consumerism and surrounded with marketing messages. This is the perfect book for anyone who cares about the future of America - and how our future can help shape the world for the better. I HIGHLY recommend this book!!!

The book is a good addition to our ministry as we try to incorporate our youth into the church and the overall vision of serving Christ through serving our city and community as a whole and would also recommend some of Tim Keller's work on this topic as well(it is not aimed specifically at children). Another reviewer talked about it being a "paradigm shift" from the traditional keep your teens away and entertained and switches in with deep service and love for others. This insight has fit very well with our multi generations style of home group smaller church family units and how they embrace their local neighbors through true loving service as a group as well as just individuals day to day.

This book is one of the very best I've read to move students from just participating in service projects to deep justice work!