Disrupting Teens with Joy

As youth workers, we want to help the teens in our ministries experience the love of God in lasting, life-altering ways. But despite our best efforts, that often doesn't seem to happen. In an overscheduled, achievement-focused culture, it's easy for our teens-and for adults-to get swept up in life's pace, resigned to believing that fleeting moments of circumstantial happiness are probably as good as it gets. What are we missing? Dave Rahn and Ebonie Davis believe what's missing is...
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As youth workers, we want to help the teens in our ministries experience the love of God in lasting, life-altering ways. But despite our best efforts, that often doesn't seem to happen. In an overscheduled, achievement-focused culture, it's easy for our teens-and for adults-to get swept up in life's pace, resigned to believing that fleeting moments of circumstantial happiness are probably as good as it gets. What are we missing? Dave Rahn and Ebonie Davis believe what's missing is joy-joy that's tethered not to circumstance, but that grows out of long-term, meaningful relationships with Jesus and others. "This book explores how to disrupt the pace of life we've commonly adopted in order to gain the life for which we were created-a life of deep, lasting joy," the authors write.Rahn and Davis bring together decades of youth ministry experience, careful research, and vulnerable stories, encouraging readers to take practical steps that will help them discover "gritty joy" with Jesus. This optimistic and challenging book also identifies habits that, if adopted, lead to lives rich in the durable joy we, and our teens, long for.