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Værker af Scott T. Brown

Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America (2003) — Redaktør — 232 eksemplarer
A Theology of the Family (2014) 112 eksemplarer
A Weed in the Church (2010) 58 eksemplarer
Feminine by Design (2008) 24 eksemplarer
The Family at Church (2020) 12 eksemplarer
Preparing Boys for Battle (2010) 11 eksemplarer
Counterfeit Worship (2013) 2 eksemplarer
It Can Be Done 1 eksemplar

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Some of my favorite quotes as I finished A Weed in the Church by Scott Brown

"Titus 2 does not describe a one-to-many ministry of the church that requires a program to fulfill; rather, it pictures a personal, one-on-one ministry of Christians to one another – older men teaching younger men and older women teaching younger women. There is no indication that systematic, age-segregated, peer-group-oriented training was involved. This is simply a command to Christians to participate in personal, intergenerational discipleship."

"Biblical discipleship of youth utilizes several resources. It begins with the family submitting to Christ. It includes following God’s patterns of instruction during the corporate gatherings of the people of God. It is part and parcel of a family’s devotion to the church, and it involves biblically ordered, personal relationships. Getting our children out of youth groups is not enough if it is not replaced with the rich contours of true discipleship. The family alone is not the answer. If the family is the only tool that we use for youth discipleship, it falls short of the whole counsel of God. If families neglect the local church and exempt themselves from the instruction by the elders, the building up of the saints, the “one another” relationships, and the maturation that church life provides, they do so at their own peril and to the demise of the next generation."

“Something has to change because this youth group is destroying our young people.” When these words left his mouth, he knew that he was calling into question the whole methodological foundation of the church. The church gave him a few months to ponder his position, but after a while, the board of elders declared that Mike no longer bought into the vision of the church and he was laid off.

"Its roots are wrapped around the financial priorities of the church, the strategic plan and vision of the church, and the budgeting process that is connected to them. Not only are you pulling on much of the church’s structure, but you are also pulling on people’s affections. When you pull on the weed of age segregation, you pull on the desires of parents who want to worship on Sunday mornings with no children to bother them. And you pull on the desires of the youth themselves: they like their media center, gymnasium, and coffee bar."

"First, Scripture alone is sufficient for faith and practice. Choosing our own inventions over the practices of biblical revelation has disastrous consequences. As Isaiah has noted: Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!...Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel (Isa. 5:21, 24). Second, systematic, age-segregated youth ministry as defined in this book is not a biblical practice. No exegetical case can be made for this method of raising up the next generation in the ways of the Lord. Rather, arguments for it largely center on pragmatic and experiential considerations. Third, the practice of systematic age segregation is pagan in its origin. While it is not found in Scripture, its origins are easily traced to the writings of ungodly philosophers and educational theorists. Fourth, age-segregated youth ministry has failed because it is inherently destructive by its nature. Yes, it has accomplished some good things, but the overall spiritually harmful methods and bad fruit of youth ministry are well documented. Good fruit is the exception and not the rule. Fifth, God has given us in the Bible a treasure trove of wisdom for how to minister to the rising generation. Scripture is filled with commands, patterns, and principles for youth discipleship. God’s program is the best youth ministry program on the planet. Sixth, a tragic blindness exists in Christian culture regarding the discipleship of youth. While God has spoken clearly about how to minister to youth in His Word, modern church life almost completely ignores that Word, while replacing it with an invention of man."

"If we are going to effectively disciple the next generation, it must be done in the context of strong families and a church that is committed to building strong families. In other words, we must build family-integrated churches where both the family and the church work together closely to create the optimal setting for training young men and women for Christ. We must deliver our young people from the corrupting effects of peer-inspired youth culture and raise up godly families and intergenerational churches which will provide what young people so desperately need - mature adults who will be their examples and their teachers."

"Bring the children into the worship service; eliminate youth programs; cancel Sunday school, children’s church, and the nursery. Taking this step does not mean that all staff members are now fired. If the staff members are biblically qualified, then re-deploy the youth pastor, the Christian education director, the children’s minister, or the other staff members."

"The proposition of this book is that the philosophy and practice of systematic, age-segregated youth ministry as defined in this book is indisputably unbiblical in its pattern, inherently destructive in its impact, and undeniably unchristian in its origin. We believe that it was adopted in the church as a result of a departure from Scripture, and that it was embraced for erroneous and pragmatic reasons. Now, after decades of practice, it has proven to be harmful to youth, to the family, to the church, and thus, to the communication of the gospel and the glory of God."
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