For the past few weeks I’ve been blogging about an evangelical documentary on youth ministry from the States, produced in association with the National Centre for Family Integrated Churches, called Divided. If you missed my previous posts, you can check them out here: PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 So far I’ve been quite critical about [...]
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Win them with fun!
Posted: September 14, 2011 by Mike Stark in Church Planting, Discipleship, Divided, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Church Ministries, Niddrie Community Church, Series, YouthTags: centre for family integrated churches, divided the movie, mike stark, urban youth work, youth ministry
Is youth ministry biblical? PART 3
Posted: September 7, 2011 by Mike Stark in Church Planting, Discipleship, Divided, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Church Ministries, Niddrie Community Church, Series, YouthTags: centre for family integrated churches, divided the movie, mike stark, urban youth work, youth ministry
Hopefully by now you’re familiar with the American short film called Divided. It comes from the NCFIC (National Centre for Family Integrated Churches) and it makes the case against segregated youth ministry as it has no basis in scripture and is founded upon pagan evolutionary principles. If you missed my first two posts, you can [...]
Is youth ministry biblical? PART 2
Posted: August 24, 2011 by Mike Stark in Church Planting, Discipleship, Divided, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Church Ministries, Niddrie Community Church, Series, YouthTags: centre for family integrated churches, divided the movie, mike stark, urban youth work, youth ministry
A couple of weeks ago I introduced you to an American short film called Divided. If you missed it, here’s the first post: ‘Is youth ministry biblical?‘ As promised, I’m going to take the opportunity over the next few weeks to reflect on some of the issues raised by the movie. According to the movie, ‘youth ministry’ has [...]
Is youth ministry biblical? PART 1
Posted: August 4, 2011 by Mike Stark in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Church Planting, Discipleship, Divided, Leadership/Ministry Training, Niddrie Church Ministries, Niddrie Community Church, Video, Websites, YouthTags: divided the movie, mike stark, national centre for family-integrated churches, urban youth work, youth ministry
My name’s Mike Stark, I’m the lead youth worker at Niddrie Community Church. Mez brought this interesting little video to my attention. Here’s the trailer (3 minutes long), which gives you a flavour of the argument. The movie is called ‘Divided’ and was produced in conjunction with The National Centre for Family-Integrated Churches. The movie’s [...]


