My alma mater, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, wants to teach campus workers and youth pastors how to dialog with young people. Gordon-Conwell thinks the best way to evangelize “young people” is to show that you understand their concerns, that you think their concerns of the utmost importance, that God shares their concerns, and that what they need in order to become lifelong dues-paying participants in this thing called “Evangelicalism” is campus workers and youth pastors who channel God to them in a way that demonstrates their great sensitivities to the deeply fractured nature of sexuality in our society.
This is American Evangelicalism’s way. Sadly, it’s also the victory Tim Keller has won in Reformed churches across our country.
Never stop demonstrating to the world your passion to use your spiritual leadership to provide a safe place in which young men and women are free to form a theologically informed nuanced approach to this charged and complex issue of sexuality.
While our sexual debauched world is playing punch-mouth with God’s order of male and female—from authority to identity and desire right down to the bed itself—Gordon-Conwell trains our church officers to come alongside those who “wonder if there is a safe space in which to form a theologically informed and nuanced approach to these charged and complex issues.”
Symposium on Youth Ministry:
Traditional Biblical Sexuality in a Changing Youth Culture
by Gordon-Conwell’s Shoemaker Center for Church RenewalAs debates about human sexuality dominate classrooms, coffee shops, and social media, youth ministers committed to a traditional Biblical ethic may struggle to find their voice. Some may wonder if there is a safe space in which to form a theologically informed and nuanced approach to these charged and complex issues. Join Dr. Walt Mueller of the Center for Parent Youth Understanding and Dr. Duffy Robbins of Eastern University for an intensive multi-day symposium…This Symposium presumes participants’ affirmation of a historic, orthodox Christian sexual ethic and will be building from this premise, not debating it.