Seminary, Ordination, and Denominationalism

The blogosphere was still abuzz on this topic for another week. If you’ve missed out on the conversation, check out my links here. If I missed any posts, drop a note in the comments.

• A condensed and modified version of my Irrelevance of Seminary series at GoingtoSeminary.com.
• A pastor responds to my post over at GoingtoSerminary.com
• Reflections on Adam’s Ordination – This time by Tim.
• Weighing in on Ordination – Erik posts his thoughts.
• The Ordination Process in the PC(USA) – By Lars Rood, someone who has been there, didn’t do it, and is back again.
• Reconsider Ordination. Now. – Tony Jones is still at it this week.
• An (Anti-) Ordination Sermon – By Tony Jones.
• Tony Jones responds to comments about his recent ordination posts.
• A female seminarian on its relevance
• A graphical representation of denominationalism – And some good commentary as well.
• Ordination in the Didache – Tony says the Didache doens’t support ordination.

Youth Ministry

• Youth Specialties is having a garage sale- Live in Southern California? YS might have stuff you need on the cheap: youth ministry stuff, books, office supplies, and who knows what sorts of random stuff.
• The Art of Small: How to Make an Impact – Those of us in youth ministry often battle feelings of inadequacy because of the size of our group. Some good thoughts on smallness here.
• Rethinking Church Camp – A good list of links from the guys at Rethinking Youth Ministry. Good things to consider if you are doing a camp this year.
• The Difference Between Youth & Adult Ministry – Jeremy disagrees with Desiring God and says that there are fundamental differences in youth and adult ministry.
• Josh Griffin on preparing a youth sermon.
• Student Teaching Pool – Adam has a simple but radical idea.
• Film School – Glory, Dixon Kinser is posting again. Here’s the first part in the Film School series, The Dark Night.
• Chris finished his series on the jobs of a small group leader. Here’s part 3 and part 4.
• Shifting from Sacred to Secular/Spiritual – Dan continues his series on shifts in youth ministry.

Miscellaneous – Church, mission, theology, other

• Bad Habits of Christendom Evangelism – David Fitch weighs in.
• Help Doug write a book on evangelism – Surely you have an opinion.
• A brilliant tip for being productive – I tried this one yesterday morning and it worked great.
• Rethinking Church – Adam points us to a great video. I used it as a launching point for high school Sunday school this morning.
• I also used this great, provocative post from Shaun Groves in Sunday school as well. (I responded yesterday here)
• Church of the World and Not of the Church – Adam McLane has more great thoughts. And guess what? Used… it… in… Sunday school.