Description Adult ministry poses a unique challenge to churches today--a challenge that many of us fail to meet adequately.
I highly recommend it --Michael Lawson, Chair, Department of Christian Education, Dallas Seminary "This work is written with a rare mix of adult learning theory and fresh ideas from the pen.
Panoramic sweep, probing insights, and prickly questions prod the reader from one chapter to the next.
Gangel mixes decades of thinking and research about adult learners with a pastor\'s heart for ministry in this volume.
Dr.
Reading Ministering to Today\'s Adults is like looking at the forest through the eyes of a trained biologist.
The real-life stories he tells and the successful strategies he outlines may strike in your heart some spark of imagination and renewed commitment that will help you to bring new life to the adult ministry of the church you serve.
As you read this book, Gangel will give you fresh ideas about how to draw these drifters back into the fold.
In this volume he has distilled his insights into an easy-to-grasp-and-apply analysis of what it takes to capture the attention and guarantee the participation of Adults in your church, including: Specific advice based on ages, genders, and circumstances peculiar to certain ministries Proven, cutting-edge curriculum models that can revitalize your church\'s adult instruction Contemporary solutions to the most common problems we encounter in Ministering to today\'s Adults Whether they know it or not, even those who are lagging in church attendance and distancing themselves from other believers still need the time-proven, heaven-given blessings only the church can offer them.
Gangel has been teaching church leaders how to do adult ministry right.
For nearly fifty years Kenneth O.
They just don\'t find much at church that seems immediately relevant or compelling.
The tragic result is an exodus of the best and brightest from our pews, not because these people have changed their theology or abandoned God.
Description Adult ministry poses a unique challenge to churches today--a challenge that many of us fail to meet adequately
