Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 7
In 1966, Time Magazine ran as its cover story, ‘Is God dead?’. In 1971, it ran another cover story ‘The Jesus Revolution’.
The value of specialised ministry in an Intergenerational church
Stu, Tim and Joel get together once more to go through the fourth and final approach detailed in Mark Senter's Four Views of Youth Ministry - the Inclusive Congregational approach.
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 6
In the past, those in their teens had looked and sounded much like adults; now there was the most striking contrast ever between two successive generations.
Resolving conflict between the generations
Joel, Stu and Tim to continue looking at different strategies of engaging youth by diving into the next of The Four Views of Youth Ministry - the Strategic approach…
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 5
Youth ministry takes the form of a grassroots movement that can spring up quickly in response to a change in the culture…
Discipleship and mission can happen together
Stu, Tim and Joel are back again breaking down the Four Views of Youth Ministry, tackling the Missional approach…
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 4
Even though a movement grows through institutionalisation, it actually becomes less effective because it becomes less flexible…
Young people are the church of today
Joel, Stu and Tim dig into the first of Mark Senter's Four Views of Youth Ministry: The Prepatory Approach…
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 3
Youth ministry would become the major strategy relied upon for passing on biblical values from one generation to the next…
Youth ministry strategies during the Youth Quake
Stu and Joel are rejoined by Tim as they chat about the Youth Quake in the 1960s and how it shaped youth ministry in the subsequent decades.
Theology of Intergenerational Ministry
Tim Beilharz and he helps us paint a theological picture of Intergenerational ministry…
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 2
Youth ministry (as we know it today) is only a recent addition to the strategy of the church. It began with the Sunday School movement…
Does the Church have an image problem?
Season 3 kicks off by asking the question: Does the Church Have an Image Problem?
Moving Beyond the Shock Absorber - Part 1
This may mean we need to look for a new revolution in the way we pass on the gospel.
The cultural shock of COVID-19
Stu and Joel are joined by Soul Revival Church's Youth Pastor, Ethan Crawshaw, to discuss how the church adapted to the lockdowns imposed by COVID-19 through the creation of digital gatherings.
Training the next generation...
Stu and Joel dive deep into Berea, Soul Revival Church's training program. They talk about how it's developed from the beginnings to the wide range of offerings that it is today.
More experiments in church planting. Two gatherings in one year!
Jai McMordie and Paul Tait join Joel to talk through the learnings from Soul Revival Church's next experiment in church planting - an ambitious plan to plant two new gatherings under the hub-and-spoke model.
The first off-site plant. Did we fail to use the Shock Absorber?
By 2017, the Bishop of Wollongong suggested Soul Revival Church should think about becoming a multi-site church. That lead to the planting of a fourth gathering, the first off-site, in Woolooware. But did we fail to use the Shock Absorber?
Scaling Ministry Teams for Growth & Planting a Sunday Gathering
By 2016, Soul Revival Church reached a point of being able to plant another gathering, this time on Sunday morning. Joel and Stu discuss the finer details and dive deep into how two particular service teams (Hospitality and Life Support) facilitated the new gathering.
An All-age, All-stage Gathering on Friday (with youth and kids)
Joel and Stu discuss 2015, it was time to plant another gathering at Soul Revival Church's Kirrawee factory.