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“Growing Young” in Australian Baptist Churches: Surveying Formation, Belonging and Mission

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Author:
Darren Cronshaw Australian College of Ministries (Sydney College of Divinity)

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Online Publication Date:
02 May 2019
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Abstract

Australian Baptist Churches are seeking to respond to the broader trend of increasing disengagement of young people from church and faith. This article discusses Australian Baptist perspectives on generational ministries from the 2016 National Church Life Survey and interviews of generational pastors and young adults. In conversation with Fuller Youth Institute’s research, it explores how churches are “growing young”: fostering spiritual formation and discipleship with a range of spiritual practices; cultivating relationships and belonging including less “siloed” and more “generational” connections; and catalysing holistic mission including faith-sharing, community service and creation care.

Title:
“Growing Young” in Australian Baptist Churches: Surveying Formation, Belonging and Mission
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/1572543X-12341519
Language:
English
Pages:
156–181
Keywords:
Baptist church; children’s ministry; creation care; generations; mission; faith formation; youth ministry
In:
Exchange
In:
Volume 48: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1572-543X
Print ISSN:
0166-2740
Subjects:
General, Theology and World Christianity

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