Week 3 - Wednesday Class Reflections

Today was the best class yet, by far. I'm so intrigued by this idea of smaller communities living in a "Kingdom of God" paradigm. I'm even more intrigued by how larger, existing churches could transform into something like this. Specifically, the implications for youth ministry would be huge. If we could encourage these types of communities to form, I think youth ministry, as we know it, would cease to exist. We would have a caring network of adults all caring for kids. That is not to say that youth ministry wouldn't continue to operate, but it wouldn't be a necessary "relational surrogate" as it is now. The adult relationships would be "hard-wired" into the structure of the faith community.