Alongside: Loving Teenagers with the Gospel

by Drew Hill

Publisher:

New Growth Press

, 2018

Overview

ECPA’s 2019 Christian Book Award winner for Ministry Resources

Alongside is a much-needed resource for both parents and those in youth ministry. In this transformative book, Drew Hill unpacks the challenges teenagers face and how youth leaders and parents can share the gospel with them at this crucial age. Full of practical insight and biblical knowledge, Alongside is an invitation to love teenagers well with the hope of the gospel.

Our teenage friends are full of questions and longings. They’re trying to figure out who they are, where they belong, and if they matter during this pivotal time of development all while facing new realities of loneliness and isolation, despite their social media followers.

Teenagers want to be chased, and Alongside brings Scripture to life and helps parents and those in youth ministry practically connect the life of Jesus to the lives of their adolescent children and friends.

Through Scripture and captivating personal stories from years of experience working in youth ministry, Hill pulls back the curtain and invites readers to step into the unfiltered world of teenagers.

How do we start meaningful conversations with our teenage friends? How do we build trust across the dining room table? What would it look like to prayerfully cultivate a group of leaders or parents with a shared goal of seeing Christ transform the lives of teenagers in our communities? What does Jesus have to say about caring for our middle or high school friends and how can he use us in his plan to rescue them?

Alongside offers practical application and biblical truths to highlight the complexities of relational youth ministry, address the needs real teenagers encounter in their daily lives and engage their hearts rather than just their behavior. Hill explores what it looks like to not only share the love of Jesus with our teenage friends but to share our very lives with them as well.

Key Features

• Unpacks the challenges teenagers face and how youth leaders and parents can share the gospel with them.
• Invites to love teenagers well with the hope of the gospel.
• Brings Scripture to life.

Contents

• Introduction
• Part One: Therunaways
• Chapter 1 Broken Heart
• Chapter 2 SOS
• Chapter 3 Deep End
• Chapter 4 Hijacked
• Part Two: The Pursuer
• Chapter 5 The Incarnation
• Chapter 6 The Light of the Son
• Chapter 7 The Delight of the Father
• Chapter 8 The Comfort of the Spirit
• Chapter 9 The Destination
• Part Three: The Pursuit
• Chapter 10 M&M’s
• Chapter 11 Name
• Chapter 12 Guest
• Chapter 13 Feast
• Chapter 14 Shame
• Chapter 15 Skin
• Chapter 16 You Came
• Chapter 17 Crowns
• Chapter 18 Walk
• Chapter 19 Question
• Chapter 20 Serve
• Chapter 21 Fix
• Chapter 22 Grace
• Chapter 23 War
• Part Four: The Long Road Home
• Chapter 24 Solo
• Chapter 25 Scared
• Chapter 26 Strings
• Chapter 27 Strategy
• Chapter 28 Squad
• Chapter 29 Slow
• Appendix: Practical Tools for Working with Teenagers
• Acknowledgments
• Endnotes

Praise for Alongside

In Alongside, Drew Hill helps adults understand teenagers and helps teenagers understand themselves. But more importantly, Drew helps all of us see the only remedy for our problems is found in the gospel of Jesus Christ. But teens, he tells us, require more than gospel information, they need a loving gospel relationship. They need someone to walk alongside of them. Parents and youth workers would be wise to read this book and mine the treasure held in its pages. A good book will make you cry and laugh, inspire you to action and compel you to pass it on. This is a good book.

—Marty Machowski, pastor and author of Parenting First Aid, The Ology, Long Story Short, and other gospel-rich resources for church and home

I highly recommend Alongside to all parents, teachers, youth ministers and anyone who has a concern for the well-being of adolescents. Drew Hill has invested his life in helping teenagers respond to the unconditional love of God, and this excellent book offers practical help that will lead to their lives being forever changed.

—Gary Chapman, Author of The Five Love Languages

With raw, real life examples from decades of working with teenagers, combined with biblical and practical guidance, Alongside provides pathways to help all of us journey together with the rising generation toward genuine experiences of the gospel.

—David Robbins, President & CEO, FamilyLife

Product Details

• Title: Alongside: Loving Teenagers with the Gospel
• Author: Drew Hill
• Publisher: New Growth Press
• Print Publication Date: 2018
• Pages: 192
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781945270895, 1945270896
• Resource ID: LLS:ALONGSIDE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-25T14:58:58Z

About Drew Hill

Drew Hill, MDiv, is a pastor in Greensboro, North Carolina, and also works with Young Life. Drew is author of the award-winning youth resource, Alongside: Loving Teenagers with the Gospel.