Download or read book Awakening Youth Discipleship in a Commodity Culture written by Abingdon Press and published by . This book was released on 2001-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an invitation to church youth leaders to rethink what they are trying to accomplish in their efforts with youth. The authors, who have considerable experience working with youth as well as strong academic credentials and an ability to reflect critically on the various contexts of youth ministry, provide a serious critique of the domestication of youth and youth ministry in our culture today. They expose the kinds of mindsets consumerism creates in young and old and the hard thinking needed to overcome these mindsets and replace them with the "mind of Jesus." The book lays out what youth ministry empowered with a "new imagination" and using the practice of discernment is meant to be. The authors provide specific lines of action for young people and their leaders for equipping young men and women to live out their Christian faith.