Today’s groups are becoming more integrated with the rest of the church. In the 1990s and early 2000s, youth group culture relied on delivering fun and entertainment by any means possible: gross-out ...

The collapse of an older, activities-driven model has created room for a gospel-centered alternative. That’s what a high school senior told me during my first week as a youth minister nearly two ...

I am sitting in a nondescript church fellowship hall, attending a gathering of the church’s youth group. Over the next hour, three people—a man in his fifties, a woman in her early thirties, a boy in ...