Simple Student Ministry: A Clear Process for Strategic Youth Discipleship
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Simple Student Ministry fine tunes the proven methods of #1 best seller Simple Church for the unique field of youth discipleship.Coauthor Eric Geiger, who contributed to the latter, takes a step forward here, neatly unpacking the key ideas of Clarity, Movement, Alignment, and Focus that will transform any over-stimulated youth program into a simpler, more results-oriented spiritual development process. Fun is still allowed, by all means, but the ultimate emphasis on maturing faith is simply essential.
The anecdotal comparisons are current and on-target (Starbucks’ well-publicized decision to retrain baristas in coffee making introduces the idea that youth leaders might also be wise to revisit the gospel essence of their ministry). And case study data gleaned from small to mega churches and parachurch ministries will give every youth leader a relatable reference point from which to begin the successful metamorphosis to Simple.
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Top Highlights
“All churches and all ministries should have a process for making disciples regardless of the format, style, location, or demographic. Since discipleship is the biblical mandate, a process for making disciples must be present in all ministries.” (source)
“Simple student ministries design a clear discipleship process. Strategically created programs are placed along the points of the stated process to help move students through the designed process in order to build their walk with God.” (source)
“Second, combine your phrases together into a process.” (source)
“Simple Student Ministry will encourage you to design a process for discipleship in your student ministry. The process should be crystal clear (clarity) and move students to greater levels of spiritual commitment (movement). All of your programs and leaders should be aligned (alignment) to the process God gives you. And you should leverage (focus) all your energy and resources on your discipleship process.” (source)
“Since discipleship as a whole is relational, discipleship with students is even more so because of the nature of teenagers. Students are already relational. Developmentally, adolescents find their identity through their relationships. They adopt the moral values of those closest to them, and their faith is very interdependent with those they trust and respect.” (source)
- Title: Simple Student Ministry: A Clear Process for Strategic Youth Discipleship
- Authors: Jeff Borton, Eric Geiger
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 213
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Church work with teenagers; Church work with youth; Youth
- ISBNs: 9781087799285, 9780805464689, 9780805447941, 0805464689, 0805447946, 1087799287
- Resource ID: LLS:9780805464689
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-07-08T22:54:18Z