Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders

"As a young pastor, J. Oswald Sanders' book Spiritual Leadership was the first book I read that awakened me to the subject of leadership. It started me on a 25-plus year journey of teaching leadership to pastors and lay people. No other book has influenced my life the way this one has." John Maxwell - Author, Speaker and Founder-The INJOY Group

The book of Revelation contains seven letters addressed to 1st century congregations struggling to find their identity.  Nearly two thousand years later we are asking some of the world’s leading thinkers, people you've never heard of and, well...you: what is your message for the Church in North America?

You’ve got 15 minutes to communicate your most pressing message to the Church. What will you say?  We invite you to submit your own message to the Church in North America and we'll select the top submissions to also present their letter.  For more information about the submission process click here.

Join these folks who will be presenting their letter to the church...

Shane Claiborne, Andy Crouch, Len Sweet, Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, [You], Ron Sider, Wendy Gritter, Tim Challies, Sarah Lance, Makoto Fujimura, Jason Hildebrand

ht to our friends at eighthletter.com

Various times over the course of the next several weeks and months we are looking for guest bloggers from across Canada to share their thoughts and insights on all things youth ministry in Canada.

If you are interested in being a guest blogger for Think Youth Ministry/Worlds Apart, this is your chance.

All topics for youth ministry are welcome; jr. high, high school, 20somethings, administration, church, culture, technology, reviews of movies/video games, etc...

Interested?

Comment on this post and we'll connect with you and figure out a plan.

Looking forward to your post.

The problem is that youth ministry today has followed the church in this regard. We have abandoned everything except two things, 1) teaching to the masses, and 2) events.

Then we wonder why we struggle to find volunteers. We try to motivate our students to be involved or even show up but we are inviting them to the same model that they hate 10 months of the year, an academic model. (read more)