Continuing the discussion of engaging youth culture in the church, Stu, Tim and Joel sit down to review Andrew Root's seminal book Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry and it's implications within the Incarnational model of ministry and beyond.

Hear about how Stu's studies of Italian Communist Gramsci, the Black Panthers, the Chicago Seven and a segment on Triple J lead to the clarification that trying to be cool wasn't an ideal ministry approach because it was buying into the hegemony. Instead, being overtly Christian, clothed in Christ and seeking to institutionalise relationships centred on Christ was the way forward.

01:04 The green Kombi + Shock Absorber Conference (30 Oct, 2021)
08:06 Cultural Artefact: The 2000s Golden Age of Television + The Rise of the Anti-Hero + the iPhone
10:36 Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry
14:31 The importance of historical perspective
17:24 Root investigates the history of culture + Incarnational theology
26:34 How high schools affect youth culture
32:38 Being relational in ministry
35:30 Gramsci, The Black Panther, Triple J and hegemonies
42:27 Let's be Christians
46:32 Targets or people? Cool or overtly Christian?
1:01:34 Institutionalising relationships centred on the cross
1:06:21 Being Christian first

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DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE

The Rise of TV
Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry by Andrew Root
Antonio Gramsci
The Black Panthers
Panther (movie)
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Triple J
Donald McGavran
1 Thessalonians 1
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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