• Ministry principle: What you're converted by seems to be what you're coverted to.
• Concerns about youth discipleship today: individualism, insularity, other-worldliness - leading to worldliness (lack of ethical standards now)
• Hunch: our gospel summaries are: individualistic, insular, other-worldly.
• Tracts: probably useful when you have 3 minutes to explain the Gospel. What should the content be? What should we put in our summaries?

Group studies

• Individualism - yes; Php 2.3-5; Mt 20.20-28; 1Co 12.12-26; Heb 10.19-25; 12.22-24. The Corinthians were told to collect their money once a week, but that doesn't mean that they were only meeting that often (1Co 16.1-4)
• Insularity - Mt 28.18-20
• Other-worldliness - limited commitment to personal transformation; for me this is probably more about leadership, teaching than other-worldliness. Amos 4. When Paul talks about fellowship he often refers more to money than meals & cups of tea together.
• You can help stop the young adult exodus by involving them in leadership and outward-focused ministry.
• Book: "Do Hard Things", Brett & Alex Harris - web site TheRebelUtion.
• "Young people will not live for something that's not worth dying for"
• Review of two gospel outlines: two ways to live (unofficial video)
• [Audience comment: "you've got to make it something that will grab attention", "we have to sell something"]
• [Sometimes it's more about who the person is rather than how they're converted.]
• Book: James Cheung, "Based on a true story" novel, "true story" tract: 1. designed for good; 2. damaged by evil; 3. restored for better; 4. sent together to heal - good, but missing some things: individual response of repentance; the eschatological focus of restoration; Jesus as king; God's judgement is the cause of the creation's frustration. Could be made better by showing how Jesus had a purpose of bearing God's judgement. There's also the aspect of God creating a people for his very own. We can't solve it ourselves, not because of the lack of resources, but because WE'RE THE PROBLEM.
• Book: Rick Richardson, "Evangelism outside the box" - takes an approach that starts with individual focus but moves towards renewed relationship with God, his people, and those outside.
• Graham's alternative: God's mission to call a people, redemption in Christ, to share in his purposes to bless the world, to do it all through long-suffering love, until he restores all things.
• Another concern: creating an (artificial) environment without suffering
• Postscript on penal substitution: God was IN Christ reconciling the world to himself - 2Co 5? 6? It is clearly communal AND individual.