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Tony Jones and Post Modern Youth Ministry
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At
the recent National Youth Worker's Convention,
What
Is Tony Jones Teaching? And if that isn't enough to make your head spin, read Tony's article in Youth Specialties, Youth Worker Journal where Tony tells all about his experiences with: Taize Worship Yoga Contemplative Prayer Read the whole article by Tony Jones |
What
Is Tony Jones Doing
To Teach Youth?
According to Tony Jones, he:
* Reads only Bible versions that have no chapter or verse numbers, such as The Message.
*Reinvigorates the process of catechism.
*Quite a big fan of lectio divina* Does more and more ancient practices for corporate spirituality.*Stations of the Cross is one we've used several times.
"In a nutshell, postmodernism says there are no universal truths valid for all people. Instead, individuals are locked into the limited perspective of their own race, gender or ethnic group. It is Nietzsche in full bloom. "
Bill Crouse
Deconstructionism: The Postmodern Cult of Hermes
"...a radical shift in the way young people view reality is bringing permanent change to Europe's spiritual climate. The global forecast is both threatening and promising. Post-modernity, as this mood-change is becoming known, is not a rational, consistent, philosophy.... It is a soup of contradictory ideas....
A Global Weather Change
by Jeff Fountain
Willing to be Lost and Searching
Rather Than Accept the Gospel According to Jesus Christ
July 8th, 2005 - PBS' Religion & Ethics Weekly has just released a news story on the emerging church movement.
The story shows how far this movement's leaders are willing to go to bring a whole generation into their emergence. These leaders are compromising the gospel and keeping thousands of young people from hearing the true message of salvation.
The underlying foundation of the emerging church is New Age mysticism. With labyrinths, yoga, chanting and meditating, the emerging church is helping to unite all the world's religious traditions.
The three emerging church leaders featured in the PBS story, Brian McLaren, Doug Pagitt, and Tony Jones, speak of a new Christianity:
Doug Pagitt - "When people discover we are a church with a yoga class ... they sometimes assume that we're simply out to appeal to the cultural creatives and the neo-hippies." (p. 53, Reimagining Spiritual Formation)
Brian McLaren: Endorsing the back cover of Alan Jones' book, Reimagining Christianity, which says the doctrine of the Cross is a vile doctrine.
Tony Jones, author of Soul Shaper:"The first time I introduced this, the kids came in, and I had a candle going and a little incense burning and some Gregorian chant music on the CD player."
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"Emergent doesn't have a position on absolute truth, or on anything for that matter. Do you show up at a dinner party with your neighbors and ask, 'What's this dinner party's position on absolute truth?' No, you don't, because it's a non-sensical question." At the 2005 National Youth Workers Convention "Postmodernism
was the key to unlock the door to the future of my theology and
ministry." "Lectio
divina is a very ancient way of reading Scripture—where you
take a very small chunk and read it over and over." "We've
used prayer with icons, or the Eastern Orthodox "We've done Ignatian meditation." |