Wednesday 28 March 2007

Speaking into a culture

I am more and more convinced as time goes on about the roll of the youth worker to be a prophet in a couple of different rolls. 1: The youth leader speaks into the culture of the church to enable the young people they coonnect with to be able to connect with god. This means that the youth worker sometimes has to speak out and change things, even when it means they are iscolated by other memebers of the Church. 2: The youth leader also speaks to the culture that the young people exist in. they need to understand the culture without necessarily giving into it svalues. But to actually go to that culture, challenge some of its values, but enable people through some of the elements of that culture come into rlationship witht he living god. The Matrix film is a great example of these rolls that the youth worker exists in. As Neo and the others reach in to the Matrix, but at the same time challenge their own world of Zion to ralise what needs to happen. Are we prepared to step up to this roll?

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