Amen.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Elisa Childers Podcast where we equip Christians to identify

the core beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel

with clarity, kindness, and truth. And today we're going to be talking about all things

youth ministry with a special guest who recently wrote a booklet called The Failure of Youth

Ministry and How to Fix It. I know that's a provocative title indeed. So we are going

to be chatting about the booklet a bit. And then we're going to be opening it up for

questions that we will take live. Our hope and prayer for this broadcast today is to

encourage youth leaders not to bash youth ministry and youth leaders, but rather to

equip you, to encourage you, and maybe provide a really clarifying path forward to maybe

not repeat some mistakes that have been made in church past, but to give us a good,

strong way forward. So if you're listening on audio platforms like iTunes, Google, and

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have got some really great conversations coming up. You're not going to want to miss.

Next week we're going to be talking with Dr. H. C. Felder who wrote the book, The African

American Guide to the Bible. This is one of the interviews that we pre-recorded from the

Southern Evangelical Seminary's National Apologetics Conference. And so with Dr. Felder,

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