Youth Ministry and Liberating Ritual

One of the things that I like most about James K. A. Smith’s approach to Christian faith and practice in You Are What You Love is how well he turns certain concepts and principles upside-down.  Consider the language of ritual and liturgy.  From a modernist Baptist approach, those are words you would not use often (if at all) when talking about ministry.  They’re too “high church” and too connected to a particular understanding of “salvation by works.”  Even in this short video about youth ministry, Smith takes two seemingly disparate things and brings them together smashingly well.

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