Faith Formation in a Secular Age, Volume 1: Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness

by Andrew Root

would say something like what he writes in Thesis One, which reads, “Since the days of the youth movement, church youth work has often lacked that element of Christian sobriety that alone might enable it to recognize that the spirit of youth is not the Holy Spirit and that the future of the church is not youth itself but rather the Lord Jesus Christ.”3 Would Bonhoeffer have replied to the statement

A crucial point.