Book, Bath, Table, and Time: Christian Worship as Source and Resource for Youth Ministry

This new Youth Ministry Alternative gives youth, youth ministers, congregational leaders, and seminary students ideas for and suggestions on how to practice the liturgical holy things of the ordo-the ancient church's life "ordered" around its liturgical holy things: bath (Baptism); book (Scriptures); table (Eucharist); calendar (the prayerful patterning of time)-in order to provide the church with a faithful ecology of life that is capable of forming Christian youth who experience God's presence, identify God rightly, and take up their baptismal vocations before God and for the world. Edie offers practical ideas that ground youth ministry in a playfully orthodox ecclesiology which holds liturgy and worship at its center, yet takes into account and is sensitive to the characteristics of the younger generation so as to successfully engage them.

About the Author:
Fred P. Edie is director of the Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation and assistant professor for the practice of Christian education and youth ministry at Duke Divinity School