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Adoptive Church (Youth, Family, and Culture): Creating an Environment Where Emerging Generations Belong by [Chap Clark, Steven Argue]

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Teens and emerging adults don't feel at home in the church because they are not fully included in the church body. How can congregations nurture young adults, welcome them as siblings into God's household, and empower them to become fully embedded contributors within and to their faith community?

Integrating the latest research on adolescent faith and young adult ministry for the local church, this book presents a new way of thinking about youth ministry. Chap Clark offers today's youth leaders highly practical principles based on his extensive experience, showing how they can implement a sustainable youth ministry program in their local church. He presents the adoptive youth ministry model as a way to help congregations see youth ministry as a bridge to inclusion, participation, and contribution in the body of Christ. Clark's comprehensive plan for designing and implementing youth ministry shows churches how to intentionally welcome young people and create an environment where they belong.

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"Another winner from the mind and heart of Chap Clark"

"I read everything that Chap Clark writes on youth ministry with eager anticipation of being challenged, inspired, and motivated to figure out how to care for students in a deeper way. Adoptive Church, another winner from the mind and heart of Chap Clark, provides that deeper way. I highly recommend it."
--Doug Fields, author of Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry; cofounder of Downloadyouthministry.com

"Clark is one of the leading experts in the world on helping young people and emerging adults be energized with their faith. As a professor, he offers research and content that are second to none. As the senior pastor of one of America's finest churches, he understands how to integrate this research into the practical and life-changing principles needed today in every church. An important message for this generation of church leaders."
--Jim Burns, president, HomeWord; author of Confident Parenting and Creating an Intimate Marriage

"Reflecting Clark's deepest convictions, Adoptive Church concretely presents the theology and practices of a church that welcomes adolescents as family."
--Cheryl Crawford, Azusa Pacific University

"Don't read this book unless you are ready to think seriously about your ministry with young people. Do read this book if you want your young people to become lifelong disciples who take their place in the work and fellowship of God's kingdom. This is wisdom that can benefit us all."
--Ken Knipp, vice president of training, Young Life

"Few can argue with the relative failure of the common programmatic youth ministry strategy for passing on faith to the next generation. Acknowledging his own failures, Clark jumps into the middle of the discussion to challenge your thinking about how we have been doing youth ministry for decades. If your passion is to see youth and emerging adults on a successful journey of becoming like Christ, then you need to read Adoptive Church. Clark provides practical steps to implement the changes necessary to create an adoptive environment where adolescent faith can grow and become deeply rooted."
--Jay Sedwick, Dallas Theological Seminary --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Chap Clark (PhD, University of Denver), one of today's leading voices in youth and young adult ministry, is senior pastor at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, California. He is also president of ParenTeen, works closely with Young Life, and taught for over twenty years at Fuller Theological Seminary. A speaker, trainer, and consultant with more than thirty-five years of ministry experience, Clark is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the bestsellers Hurt 2.0 and Sticky Faith, and has edited and contributed to Adoptive Youth Ministry and Youth Ministry in the 21st Century. Follow him on Twitter: @chapclark. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07D6X4954
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baker Academic (October 16, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 16, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4863 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages

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- #471 in Children's & Teens' Christian Education
- #847 in Christian Youth Ministry (Kindle Store)
- #1,395 in Youth Christian Ministry

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Chap Clark (MA, MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary; PhD, University of Denver) is lead pastor at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, CA. Prior to this, Chap was professor of Youth, Family, and Culture and Vice Provost at Fuller Theological Seminary. In addition Chap is president of ParenTeen™ (www.parenteen.com), a frequent speaker, consultant, ministry and life coach and author. He was the senior editor of YouthWorker Journal, a Sojourner contributing writer and "Red Letter Communicator," and is the author or co-author of 25 books, including the award-winning titles Sticky Faith (with Kara Powell, Zondervan, 2011), "Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers, "Youth Ministry in the 21st Century: 5 Views" and "Adoptive Youth Ministry: Integrating Emerging Generations into the Family of Faith" (all Baker Academic).

Chap has served in many diverse settings over his career. He has been a senior and administrative pastor, is on call as a consulting producer for reality television, and is a regular commentator on a wide range of cultural issues, primarily in terms of adolescent/young adult development, marriage/family/parenting, and more recently society and media and faith. He cut his teeth on the Young Life staff for 15 years.

Dee, a marriage and family therapist who specializes in "equine assisted psychotherapy" (www.healingreins.com) and Chap (www.chapclark.com) have been married for 40 years, have three adult children and five grandchildren. Chap is currently serving in Newport Beach and retreats at their family home in Gig Harbor, WA.

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Hayden

Great book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2023

Great for class!

Not another cookie cutter idea

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2019

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If you're looking for an easy to implement program for your church/youth ministry this isn't the book for you. If you're looking for a text that will invite you to look at youth ministry through a new lens, one that takes young people and the health of the whole church seriously...then this book might be for you. Chap has long been a prophetic voice in the church and youth ministry. In this book again he invites the reader to imagine youth ministry and the family of God in a dynamic new way. Essential reading.

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Filip Milosavljevic

Great Thinker...Very Useful Model of Church

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I am a doctoral student and am reading through Adoptive Church right now. Dr. Chap Clark really does a good job outlining a comprehensive, scholarly, and Biblical model for how young people and adults should be viewed in church and community contexts. He shows through a pauline metaphor that young people should be adopted into the family of God, living out a sibling relationship with those in the church, where a mutual love and care exist and develop.

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Lars Coburn

Clear, concise, and deep!

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Chap is not only a foremost leader in adolescent research regarding faith questions but a tremendous wealth of practical knowledge for what it means to be the church. I have found his writing to be clear and concise while also being sound academically. This will be a resource I come back to and review again and again as the reflections about how to live out being siblings in Christ together in the midst of Christian community.

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TManning

A practical book for church workers

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This book provides practical ways to implement an intergenerational model of youth ministry that views the church family as brothers and sisters in Christ. Written by a former professor who is now back in the local church, Chap Clark speaks from both years of teaching, research, theological reflection, and in-church experience.

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D. T. Morris

Like the others

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Sadly... Dr. Clark has only regurgitated what he has said in several other books. Other than looking closer at methodology - this book does not offer anything his other books have not. I fear this book was written out of a need to fulfill demands from publishers. I cant over recommend Hurt 2.0... Adoptive Church is not on the same level. No where close.

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Youth, Emerging Generations, Previously Emerged Generations, Relating as the Family of God

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OK, Chap Clark has written some pretty insightful, thought-provoking books - all on youth and youth ministry for youth ministers. In this book, his scope has expanded a bit. He writes about a paradox. While a church community might call themselves a family, most don’t relate or minister to each other as family. The adults are the adults. Children are cute. And youth must be singled out, left in the charge of a young youth worker, who with a whip and a chair, pizza and a lock-in must bring the students to Christ. While this model has been accepted almost universally in many churches, many communities have come to find that this model is not working. But what should they do to “fix” the problem?
Adoptive Church asks the church community, youth minister, pastor or parent to think differently about attitudes and intentions regarding youth ministry and the community that is Church. Chap Clark makes a theological case for applying three biblical concepts which can then help reshape an understanding of being Church; ministering to each other relationally, and welcoming any and all “outside” into a relationship with Christ and His Body/Family/Church. Adopted into the Body of Christ, each generation has to come to terms with what it means to be in relationship with everybody else in the family of God. So while the book is youth ministry focused, it can be easily applied to ministry with children, adults, older adults.
Adoptive Church is grounded in Scripture and theology but it also give a process of evaluating ministry and making changes that are applicable in any sized congregation. Clark packs together a number of concepts that he borrows and “baptizes” from the studies of education, business, organization, leadership and the human person. So this isn’t only an idealistic tome. It is a book to read with others who share a hope that the Church will be the family of God whereby all know and experience the grace of being adopted in Christ.

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Richard W. Griffith

Great Book, Theology and Model for Introduction to Youth Ministry

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2019

As a Professor of Youth Ministry at a 4-year College, Adoptive Church is a much "easier" read for an Introductory Course into Youth Ministry. "Adoptive Youth Ministry", while an excellent book, would be more for a Junior and Senior level Course. "Adoptive Church" is also good for lay leaders, Pastor, Youth Pastors and anyone who wants to wrestle with the question, "How does our Church incorporate 'adoptive youth ministry' in OUR Church context?" While it does not give answers, it is more of an eye-opener as to WHY Adoptive Church needs to happen. The fact is, no book can TELL a Church how to do Adoptive Church Ministry because so many contexts are different. I would "pair" this book with other of Clark's book, "Hurt 2.0" AND with Mark DeVries', "Sustainable Youth Ministry" and/or "Family-Based Youth Ministry". Few churches are aware of the damage caused to our young by (systemic) abandonment let alone why our youth are so lonely, isolated and struggling to find their identity and "fit in" to society as a whole and specifically "church life".

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