Loading...
10th out of 12 books
—
3 voters
My rating:
add to my books
Purpose Driven Youth Ministry: 9 Essential Foundations for Healthy Growth
Forged around the fundamental purposes of evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, and worship, Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry uses the experiences of Saddleback Church in California to illustrate what a healthy youth ministry can be.
Hardcover, 400 pages
Published
January 27th 1998
by Zondervan Publishing Company
(first published January 1st 1998)
There is a good chance some of your friends read this book. Sign in to see!
sign in »
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
280)
I knew going in that this wasn't going to have a "Reformed" philosophy of ministry, but a few Reformed people had recommended it to me so I thought I'd give it a try and try to have an open mind. And, while there was some helpful things in the book, I had to wade through lots of marketing techniques, acronyms, and things that I just didn't find helpful to get to the useful parts. The section on small groups was good. And I took some notes and learned some things here and there througho...more
My church is very small. And my youth group small as well. The few chapters did a very good job at explaining how to write a purpose statement and gave good Biblical explanations as to each part of a "good" purpose statement. As I was reading the beginning on this book I was inspired. I felt that "my" church could actually take some of this information in the book and apply it to the youth group. However, as I read on the information clearly was written for a church with a yo...more
One of the most influential books I've ever read. I really appreciate Fields' passion to pass on the stuff he's learned about youth ministry to us fellow youth pastors.
It was probably pride that kept me from picking up something titled "purpose driven anything", but it's actually helpful.
Great but gets extremely tedious. Can be overwelming! Borders on performance based ministry in my opinion.
it might have been better if there would have been something for me to use in my situation.
Thea Pitchers
added it
Great book both practical & inspirational
Oh so there is a method
will constantly reference!
Charles
rated it
Recommends it for:
Anyone doing "anything" with youth ministry
Recommended to Charles by:
Brandon Stewart
Shelves:
theology
A book for "everyone" in youth ministry. I wish I would have read this a few years ago and avoided a lot of pitfalls I've run into. If you feel this book is only for larger ministries you're wrong. I've worked in small youth ministries and the book was very applicable to me. I will admit that the information is slightly favorable to larger churches though.
A must read if you have anything to do with youth ministry. Best read when you're working in an environment where you ca...more
A must read if you have anything to do with youth ministry. Best read when you're working in an environment where you ca...more
good read
I ignored this book for awhile because I didn't want to read another "Purpose Driven Life;" however, I really enjoyed this one. Fields did a great job on making sure the reader knows what youth ministry is really all about. It gives great advice and outlooks. I liked how the first part of the book is devoted to the youth leader's heart.
So I haven't actually read the whole thing, but we went through chunks of it and it was very helpful to use it in making decisions about where our youth ministry is going. The book made us consider the purpose of what we're doing rather than just going ahead full speed for no particular reason.
This is a great book on Youth Ministry. It is very expansive and includes everything from small groups, to large groups, to training and caring for leaders, to communicating with parents and everything in between else. It is very easy to read and very practical.
Definately helpful, however some ideas are mainly for bigger ministries. I wish I read his "Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry" first, as that's what Doug Fields reccomends, and I'm on my way into my second year and am yet to read it.
fulfills it's purpose good, but does not address the concerns of the smaller local church.
Good ideas.
Dliston
added it
Blake Larson
marked it as to-read
Rohit
marked it as to-read
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
